I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

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• Seamus Heaney:

  I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

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  The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

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  Sonnet is about movement in a form.

• Seamus Heaney:

  What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better,

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  Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being

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  My passport's green.

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  History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

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  I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.

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  My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gae

• Seamus Heaney:

  The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was g