Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIAwas an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 April 1939
CityCastledawson, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
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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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Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
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Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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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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We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.
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Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
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The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
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The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.