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Seamus Heaney Quotes

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

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Values Kind Poet Somebody Who Like

The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them.

Truth Art Quality Small Delight Us

Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.

Life Mean Reverence Eternal Life

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Heart Poetry Learn Now Students

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Imagination People Me Alive Poets

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

Poetry Used Ireland Northern Ireland

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

Movement Sonnet Form About

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

Better Famous Said Say Joke Half

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

Poetry Everything Intensity Utterance

I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

Time Queen Lunch Nothing Palace Had

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.

Family Father Home World Side Rural

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.

God Behavior Speech Persuasion Sense

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