SHSeamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney

Life dates: 1939 AD — 2013 AD

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01c. 1966 AD

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

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02c. 1966 AD

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

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03c. 1966 AD

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

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04c. 1966 AD

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

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05c. 1966 AD

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

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06c. 1966 AD

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

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07c. 1966 AD

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

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08c. 1966 AD

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

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09c. 1966 AD

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

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