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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.
Seamus Heaney
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
Seamus Heaney
I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.
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The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
Seamus Heaney
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
Seamus Heaney
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
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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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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
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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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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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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
Seamus Heaney
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Seamus Heaney
Poetry is language in orbit.
Seamus Heaney
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
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Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
Seamus Heaney