I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. Seamus Heaney More Quotes by Seamus Heaney More Quotes From Seamus Heaney The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. Seamus Heaney unexpectedmatterfacts The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... Seamus Heaney forgetfulselfwriting As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Seamus Heaney notescitizensreality There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. Seamus Heaney riskworld The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here. Seamus Heaney dreamwritingnight I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Seamus Heaney creditwalksspace Write whatever you like! Seamus Heaney writing Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. Seamus Heaney impulsesecurelanguage Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging Seamus Heaney diggingthumbsgun I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. Seamus Heaney written Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear. Seamus Heaney strangehuge Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. Seamus Heaney ireland-and-the-irishpoliticalfire The ability to start out upon your own impulse is Seamus Heaney fundamentalsinspirationalart Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. Seamus Heaney siterealizingconsciousness So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells. Seamus Heaney forgivenessrevengebelieve The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away. Seamus Heaney tideslinesfather If self is a location, so is love. Seamus Heaney locationifsself 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 Seamus Heaney achievementself-esteemart Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson. Seamus Heaney circleshousehome There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it. Seamus Heaney builtaddgiving
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