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One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.

~Seamus Heaney

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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

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As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

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In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

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I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

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I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

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I've been in the habit of helping people.

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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

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My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 13th, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2013

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