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Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast The Queen. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. No glass of ours was ever raised to toast The Queen.

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

It was like a moment of exposure to interstellar cold, a reminder of the scary element, both inner and outer, in which human beings must envisage and conduct their lives. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

It was like a moment of exposure to interstellar cold, a reminder of the scary element, both inner and outer, in which human beings must envisage and conduct their lives.

Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.

Art

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

The next move is always the test. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

The next move is always the test.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Hope Irish Poet

I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.

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. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Irish Poet Perception

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Irish Irish Poet

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.

News

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.

Life

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 Quotes

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

Expectation Irish Poet

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Irish Poet Poetry

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 Quotes

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.

Irish Poet Marriage

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

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. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Art

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. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

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. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Irish Poet Poetry

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. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Irish Poet Listening

The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Irish Poet Risk

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. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Power

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Consciousness Irish Poet

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. - Seamus Heaney Quotes

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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