“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.” IfsWayShouldMeanSelfCountryHomeRememberPoliticalOpportunityLanguageUnderstandingCuttingMissingEssentialsElementsDiversityRegardOneselfMutualDesirableImaginativeAttainmentRealisationBetter FutureCultural DiversitySelf UnderstandingEnhancementMutual Understanding Author:Seamus Heaney
“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.” WellsArtSelfSeemsActionSelf EsteemEssentialsAchievementSurvivalBasesConvincedEsteemRhythmGuaranteesCredibilityGetting Started Author:Seamus Heaney
“The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.” SelfCrisisIntimateIsolatedSolitary Author:Seamus Heaney
“The appointment [in Harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.” YearsSelfSupportEconomicMonthsIntellectualSafetyEightHarvardAppointments Author:Seamus Heaney
“If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.” IfsSelfTakenDistanceNow And ThenHeelsLocationHere And ThereStanceCardinalsObstinacy Author:Seamus Heaney
“The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.” WritingSelfEmpowermentUnexpectedInner LifeForgetful Author:Seamus Heaney
“I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.” GivingWritingLittlesSelfNextBitsLittle BitStonesOneselfStreamsSelf RespectStepping Stones Author:Seamus Heaney
“Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.” WorldWellsSelfJoyLanguageProcessLosesRepresentationInventiveness Book:The Redress of Poetry Source: The Redress of Poetry
