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Seamus Heaney
Irish
April 13, 1939
Poet
My passport's green.
Seamus Heaney
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Green
Passport
Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
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Almost
Oratory
The end of art is peace.
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Peace
End
Art
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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World
Side
Poet
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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Home
Poetry
Most
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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Truth
You
World
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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Even
Did
Last
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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Get
Always
Had
Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.
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You
Your
World
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
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Imagination
People
Me
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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Poetry
Up
Which
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
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Famous
Only
Say
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
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Positive
Our
Make
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
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War
Beauty
Poetry
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.
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Up
Very
Had
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Seamus Heaney
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Poetry
Life
Thing
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Seamus Heaney
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Get
Out
Life
If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries.
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You
People
Very
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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God
Just
Them
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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God
Were
Then
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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Change
Truth
Trust
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
Seamus Heaney
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Me
Think
I Think
