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I drink to keep body and soul apart.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
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My body was braille for the creeping influences.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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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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Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
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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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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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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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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
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Write whatever you like!
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself.
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On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.
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In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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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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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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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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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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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I shall gain glory or die.
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