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Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
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Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not. -Blackberry picking
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Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
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My body was braille for the creeping influences.
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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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The end of art is peace.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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