At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, ... -Seamus Heaney

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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Seamus Heaney , Poet
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Seamus Heaney Quotes to Explore

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and...
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'...
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained....
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew....
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups....
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible....
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty....
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself....
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also....
Poetry is more a threshold than a path....

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I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea....
I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald's with the kids rather than cook something from scrat...
Whether core al Qaeda or its offshoots like AQAP, ISIS, or the many others - we are working with our partners to find and disrupt them, wherever they ...
In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christian home....
I buy soy sauce and flavor it five different ways: with sake, mirin, sugar, kombu and bonito flakes. I use them on lots of dishes at home....
You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dre...
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left ho...
I don't think too much about mechanics. I just like to go up there and swing. It's more than my swing, though. It's my mindset. I always go to home pl...
I have a home in Puerto Rico, and I see what is happening on the islands there....
I was brought up in a home environment where I was taught to think critically and was encouraged to seek answers to questions about my faith....