"I always had a superstitious fear of setting……" — Seamus Heaney
"I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded."
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108 Quotes by Seamus Heaney
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- 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…
- I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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