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Seamus Heaney
Irish
Poet
Born:
Apr 13
,
1939
Died:
Aug 30
,
2013
Ireland
Life
Poetry
Sense
Think
You
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You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
Seamus Heaney
You
Yourself
Danger
Shaken
Mortal
Mortality
Feel
Order
Your
There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
Seamus Heaney
You
Never
Know
Ireland
Going
United
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
Seamus Heaney
History
Chapter
Thomas
Case
Poetry
The History Of
Dylan
Dylan Thomas
Much
Now
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
Seamus Heaney
Education
Me
Generation
Important
Secondary
Say
Would
My Generation
Something
Students
Allowed
Scholarships
Schools
Go
Won
Ireland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Which
Act
Who
University
I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
Seamus Heaney
Intelligence
Political
Think
Analytic
Naturally
The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
Seamus Heaney
Group
John
Writers
Had
Up
Very
Michael
James
Formed
Paul
Grown
Grown-Up
Necessary
The end of art is peace.
Seamus Heaney
Art
Peace
End
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
Seamus Heaney
You
Class
Whatever
System
Caste
Call
Ireland
Northern
Northern Ireland
Want
Unionism
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
Seamus Heaney
Hope
History
Side
Says
Grave
I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
Seamus Heaney
Disappointment
Preparation
Think
Generally
Childhood
Speaking
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Seamus Heaney
Life
Think
Out
Ripples
Begun
Center
Original
Series
Widening
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 carry words farther and deeper than the eye.
Seamus Heaney
Time
You
Yourself
Words
Reading
Every
Every Time
Others
Eye
Carry
Poem
Voice
Aloud
Read
Than
Them
Farther
Helps
Deeper
Presence
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
Seamus Heaney
Path
Threshold
More
Poetry
Than
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
Seamus Heaney
Peace
Do-It-Yourself
Marriage
Political
Matter
Relations
Kit
Within
Personal
Process
Whether
Peace Process
Initiatives
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
Seamus Heaney
Too
Born
Ireland
Optimistic
Northern
Northern Ireland
Anyone
Bred
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
Seamus Heaney
About
Sonnet
Movement
Form
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
Seamus Heaney
Truth
You
World
Before
Risk
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
Seamus Heaney
Possible
Poetry
Making
Credit
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney
Political
Expectation
Positions
Mutually
Poetry
Disapprove
Said
Public
Groups
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