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You Quotes by Seamus Heaney
- I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives…
- Write whatever you like!
- Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
- Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
- There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
- The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
- I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
- You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.
- Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
- Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a…
- Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them. Voice helps to…
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