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Seamus Heaney

The Heaneys were aristocrats,...

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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Seamus Heaney

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry ...

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

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Seamus Heaney

My point is there's a hidden ...

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

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Seamus Heaney

In a war situation or where v...

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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Seamus Heaney

The day I entered St Columb's...

The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.

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Seamus Heaney

I've always associated the mo...

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

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Seamus Heaney

As a young poet, you need cor...

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

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Seamus Heaney

It is very true to say that w...

It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

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Seamus Heaney

My experience is that prose u...

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

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Seamus Heaney

Nowadays, what an award gives...

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

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Seamus Heaney

You yourself don't have to be...

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

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Seamus Heaney

Dylan Thomas is now as much a...

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

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Seamus Heaney

What I've said before, only h...

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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Seamus Heaney

I don't do as many readings a...

I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.

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Seamus Heaney

The problem as you get older....

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

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Seamus Heaney

Every time you read a poem al...

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.

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Seamus Heaney

My father was a creature of t...

My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.

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Seamus Heaney

You can have Irish identity i...

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.

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Seamus Heaney

I would say that something im...

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.

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Seamus Heaney

Since I was a schoolboy, I've...

Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.

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