Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Seamus Heaney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

Topics

PoetryKindWriteRefusalThing

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Maya Angelou

BeautifulGreatTimeWomanParents

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Jean Paul

CourageSeeingBlindlyDanger

I am nothing without the players.

Stuart Pearce

I AmNothingWithoutPlayersAm

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.

Tom Hiddleston

LoveHistoryPeopleEnoughYouLook

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

Robert De Niro

CharacterConfidentFeelHelpYou

You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

Robert Browning

KissYouNeverOldHimYears

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

Ron Livingston

ScienceThinkUnknownExploringSort

The only group that is less self-aware than Hillary Clinton is the media.

Ronna McDaniel

MediaGroupOnlyThanLessClinton

Nail polish is like the icing on the beauty cake.

Mary Helen Bowers

BeautyCakeNail PolishLikeNail

I got into the weights because I didn't want anybody messing with me. I wanted people to say, 'Oh, he's so big, I don't want to mess with him.' And second of all, I wanted to be great at football. I wanted to be the baddest dude around because I knew what it was like to not be.

Mike Daniels

GreatFootballPeopleMeSayWant

We had a lot of help when we got to America.

Milana Vayntrub

AmericaHelpGotLotHad

When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

Liu Xiang

HurdlesHighUsedYoungerBefore

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