Forgetful Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image “The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forgetful Inspirational Self Writing
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory.… — Socrates Copy Share Image
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What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Writing isn’t necessarily a gift it is a passion. You can write a one page masterpiece to 99 pages of crap. What keeps you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When I write, I make my memories tangible, and in this way I can get rid of them. — Jorge Semprun Copy Share Image
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure. — Julianna Baggott 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 debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become… — Donald L. Staheli Copy Share Image
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget! — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and… — Joseph E. B. Lumbard Copy Share Image
Jem was safe from her, and he would ride away with a song on his lips and a laugh at her expense, forgetful of… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
