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Seamus Heaney has 109 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
• I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
• The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense…
• Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
• Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.
• The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly,…
• I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
• To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most…
• Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly…
• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing…
• The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
• Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth…

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