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Seamus Heaney Quotes

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Memory Me Way Always Remembering

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

Live Time Me Guitar You Kind

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Good Weather Bad Bad Weather Kinds

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Simple Sacrifice Easy Place Skill

There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.

Mother Man Me Search Young Talk

Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.

Time Team Believe Think Dream True

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.

Time World Political Because Made

I'm always trying to be a good example to people and always trying to do something cool. I really don't want to end up like that cliche celebrity teenager kid who is a bad example.

Lucky Blue Smith

Good People Cool End Trying Bad

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves.

Diversity Democracy Tradition Say

Michael Jordan and Michael Phelps are the greatest to ever do what they did, and I'm not. But if you believe that you are, then you're almost as good as being that.

Good Believe You Greatest Being Did

I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.

Song Small My Own Write Own Started

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

Christopher Nolan

Love Together Story Tell Things

Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the king, but it's not the king any more.

Chuck Palahniuk

Great Time King More Storytelling

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