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Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet born on April 13, 1939, and passed away on August 30, 2013. He is renowned for his profound humanistic concerns and exquisite poetic skills, being one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.

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Famous Seamus Heaney Quotes

“If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.”

Ifs Art Inner Life

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“Poetry is language in orbit.”

Art Poetry Language Poetry Is Orbit

Book:Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

Source: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

“Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.”

Wells Art Self Seems Action Self Esteem Essentials Achievement Survival Bases Convinced Esteem Rhythm Guarantees Credibility Getting Started

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“Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.”

Thinking Has Beens Art Creatures Deep Relationship

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“The end of art is peace.”

Art Ends Art Is

Book:Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

Source: Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978

“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.”

Inspirational Art Seems Term Ability Essentials Fundamentals Rhythm Impulse Getting Started

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art”

Way Art Figures Committed Decades Senior Vocation Exemplary

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About the Author

Born: April 13, 1939
Died: August 30, 2013
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 153

Books & Sources

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996Related source material

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' AntigoneRelated source material

Aeneid Book VIRelated source material

BeowulfRelated source material

Crediting Poetry: The Nobel LectureRelated source material

NorthRelated source material

Opened GroundRelated source material

Death of a NaturalistRelated source material

Death of a Naturalist: PoemsRelated source material

District and CircleRelated source material

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