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"Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."
"Beppu (n.)The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page."
"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
"Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited...Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."
"If what you call happiness are the pleasurable feelings that you experience when things are going very well in your life, then you truly don't know what true happiness is."
Explore more quotes by Seamus Heaney
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
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