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Seamus Heaney Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I Am Poetry You Go Beyond Where

Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.

Wife Me Hockey Everything Where Met

Everyone thinks that just because you have a Scouse accent, then you must be 'on the rob'.

Jennifer Ellison

You Just Because Everyone Must Just

Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?

Andreas Katsulas

Character Better Year You Play Know

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

Education Community Day Generosity

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

High Favorite Sounds Very Ambient

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Friend Sun Other He Every Attracts

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Live Peace Must Make

It is always the village women who drive these things.

Women Drive Village Always Things

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Friendship Success Choose Choice

Being a father is just great. I love every minute - even the rubbish, middle-of-the night stuff.

Love Father Great Night Just Stuff

I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

Work New York People Me Energy New

With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

World Energy Security Country Way

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