Seamus Heaney Quotes About Writing
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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 steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
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Write whatever you like!
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The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
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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...
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The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.
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Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
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Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.
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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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The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.
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