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Quote by Seamus Heaney

“There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.”

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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. more

“The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting one. When I was an undergraduate, there was a glib notion around that there was no reason to suppose a bad man could be a good writer.”

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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

Author:Seamus Heaney

“The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's term "slip" from you.”

Energy Term Reader Slips Exhilarating

Author:Seamus Heaney

“A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.”

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“That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.”

Ifs Seems Impossible Planets News Aliens Our Planet

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“There are 7 billion people on the planet. Pretty much everyone is doing sex. It's not like you need to order the "baby-starter kit" on Amazon. Instincts will come to you at the weirdest places and times.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.”

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Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. And, well, we're feeling those growing pains today. Doing big things is hard. All of us. All of us, myself included, we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better.”

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Author:Paul Ryan

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