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Seamus Heaney Quotes

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Irish Poet April 13, 1939

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Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love. Seamus Heaney
History says, Don't hope/On this side of the grave/But then, once in a lifetime/The longest-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 in miracles.... Seamus Heaney
To work, her dumb lunge says, is to move a certain mass... through a certain distance, is to pull your weight and feelexact and equal to it. Feel dragged upon. And buoyant. Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and..."
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says..."
Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. Seamus Heaney
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 Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the..."
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job Seamus Heaney

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