There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

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• Seamus Heaney:

  Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of ou

• Seamus Heaney:

  I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

• Seamus Heaney:

  A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously

• Seamus Heaney:

  But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality

• Seamus Heaney:

  As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary o

• Seamus Heaney:

  Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew

• Seamus Heaney:

  The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

• Seamus Heaney:

  In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium it

• Seamus Heaney:

  The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and t

• Seamus Heaney:

  Write whatever you like!