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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
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My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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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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Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.
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In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
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Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.
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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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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
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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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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
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Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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The next move is always the test.
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
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