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The next move is always the test.

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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
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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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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
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The end of art is peace.
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Walk on air against your better judgement.
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The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.
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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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Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
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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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Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.
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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
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Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
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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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So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.
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