Irish - Poet | April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013
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.
Seamus Heaney
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I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
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The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.
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I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
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The end of art is peace.
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