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Seamus Heaney Quotes

Irish - Poet | April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Home Attitude Habit Authority Figure

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.

Life Poetry My Life Unexpected Fact

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.

Father Mother World You Say Could

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Relationship Poetry You Wonder Your

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Learning Heart Firm Believer

It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.

Heart Learn Difficult Off Poems

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

Culture Brain Think Grow Reach Help

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

Poetry Achieve Serious Hard Anything

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.

Poetry Kind Write Refusal Thing

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.

I Am Poetry You Go Beyond Where

Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.

Almost Oratory Yeats

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

Father Mother Children No Sense Had

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