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Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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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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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
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Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.
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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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My body was braille for the creeping influences.
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The end of art is peace.
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Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
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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.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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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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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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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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