Quotes by Seamus Justin Heaney
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But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
After eleven years I was composing Love-letters again, broaching the word 'wife' Like a stored cask,
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