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Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.
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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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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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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 way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
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It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.
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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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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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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Allow ourselves to do as Ram Dass said in his delicious phrase Be Here Now. If you are here now you cannot fall into falsely constructed gender projections.
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Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
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