Anglo saxon Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image “In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anglo saxon Cannot Poetry Translated Way
Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“...at seventeen I tried to write poetry confining myself solely to Anglo-Saxon words - don't know if it helped, but it made me more… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Some poems survive it to become poems in another language,” he argued, “but others refuse to live in any language but their own, in… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against… — Gerald Hausman Copy Share Image
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
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… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
The American model was celebrated by Thatcherites and New Labour alike, California worshipped as the model of the future, 'Anglo-Saxon' embalmed as the fitting… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long… — F. William Engdahl Copy Share Image
Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I don't trust most journalists who belong to Anglo Saxon stock because we know what your inclinations are. — Subramanian Swamy Copy Share Image
Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
