Seamus Heaney: Thing

Seamus Heaney was Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer. Explore interesting quotes on thing.

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“Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.”

Source: Beowulf

“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 book Station Island

Source: Station Island

“I don't mean sound as decoration or elaboration, but the actual cadence that moves tge thing along.”

'Stepping Stones' interviews with Seamus Heaney' by Dennis O'Driscoll Faber and Faber 2009
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