Seamus Heaney est un poète irlandais, né le 13 avril 1939 à Castledawson, dans le comté de Londonderry, Irlande du Nord, et mort à Dublin le 30 août 2013 .
Il est un des poètes anglophones les plus connus du XXe siècle et très apprécié dans le monde anglo-saxon, pour une poésie mêlant l'évocation sensuelle de la nature et du cadre celtique à la violence désespérée de la situation politique actuelle en Irlande du Nord. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1995. Wikipedia
“Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.”
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Contexte: History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
Source: Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
“God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
Seamus Heaney livre Death of a Naturalist
"Docker", line 10, from Death of a Naturalist.
Poetry Quotes, Death of a Naturalist
“Human beings suffer,
they torture one another,
they get hurt and get hard.”
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake" from The Cure at Troy (1990) - The Cure at Troy http://www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Cure_at_Troy.html excerpts <br class="br">Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy <br class="br">Contexte: Human beings suffer,<br>they torture one another,<br>they get hurt and get hard.<br>No poem or play or song<br>can fully right a wrong<br>inflicted or endured.
“Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.”
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Contexte: Call the miracle self-healing:
The utter self-revealing
double-take of feeling.
If there's fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
And a god speaks from the sky That means someone is hearing
the outcry and the birth-cry
of new life at its term.
Seamus Heaney The Cure at Troy
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Contexte: History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
“Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.”
Source: Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
“I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”
Seamus Heaney livre Death of a Naturalist
"Personal Helicon", line 19, from Eleven Poems (1965).
Other Quotes
Source: Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney livre Station Island
Source: Station Island
Seamus Heaney livre Death of a Naturalist
"Digging", line 25, from Death of a Naturalist (1966).
Poetry Quotes, Death of a Naturalist
"Whatever You Say, Say Nothing", line 57, from North (1975).
Other Quotes
An Open Letter (1983), p. 9.
Objecting to his inclusion in The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry.
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From Nobel Prize for Literature speech 1995
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'Stepping Stones' interviews with Seamus Heaney' by Dennis O'Driscoll Faber and Faber 2009
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“Don't be afraid.”
Noli timere.
Last words; a text to his wife. Daily Telegraph report. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10281153/Seamus-Heaney-told-wife-dont-be-afraid-minutes-before-death.html <br class="br">Other Quotes
