childhood

history

poetry

water

occupation / innovator as

translator

playwright

poet

nationality

Irish

university teacher

linguist

religion

Catholicism

actor

scientific organization

Royal Society of Literature

Academia Europaea

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Aosdána

Royal Irish Academy

is generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. Seamus Heaney

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

poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. seamus heaney

is always slightly mysterious, necessarily living one to wonder over one's relationship to it.

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

is what we do to break bread with the dead.

poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

is full of life, being associated with origin and being bright, it reflects us.

I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin... it is bright it reflects you. Seamus Heaney

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