3 Quotes – Seamus Heaney

 

 

 

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet

Nobel Prize in Literature 1995

born:
April 13, 1939 in Castledawson, Northern Ireland
died:
August 30, 2013 in Dublin, Ireland

 

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

 

 

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