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About Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright and translator
Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature and is closely associated with modern Irish poetry. He died in 2013. Heaney’s first major published collection was Death of a Naturalist, released in 1966. His work and reputation drew strong praise from other writers and critics, who often described him as a major Irish voice and a poet of unusual range and narrative skill.
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- “If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.”Seamus Heaney
- “A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.”Seamus Heaney
- “I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.”Seamus Heaney
Poetry: more sayings
- “Pinecones. Little works of art. Prickly. Reminders of fall. Similar to pineapples. A sign of welcome.”Mommy Moo Moo
- “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beetho…”Martin Luther King Jr.
- “In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smo…”Marianne Moore
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Books by Seamus Heaney
Beowulf
2000
The Spirit Level
1996
Death of a naturalist
1966
Opened Ground
1998
District and circle
2006