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Famous Seamus Heaney Quotes
“There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.”
“Walk on air against your better judgement.”
“I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job”
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
“Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.”
“All I know is a door into the dark”
“In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.”
“I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”
“Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging”
“Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.”
“Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.”
“I've nothing against the Queen personally: I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.”
“Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.”
“I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.”
“The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.”