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«This temperamental disposition towards an art that was earnest and devoted to things as they are was corroborated by the experience of having been born and brought up in Northern Ireland and of having lived with that place even though I have lived out of it for the past quarter of a century.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«It has as much to do with the energy released by linguistic fission and fusion, with the buoyancy generated by cadence and tone and rhyme and stanza, as it has to do with the poem's concerns or the poet's truthfulness.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«We want the surprise to be transitive like the impatient thump which unexpectedly restores the picture to the television set, or the electric shock which sets the fibrillating heart back to its proper rhythm.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
«Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.»
Author: Seamus Heaney
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