"Poetry is language in orbit."

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Source : Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber

Seamus Heaney

#Art Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Orbit Quotes

“There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other.”

Source : 1878 Speech, Birmingham, 13 Jan.
“I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.”
“Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers with the collapse of the relationship of the couple who brings a child into the world.”
“I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.”
“I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.”
“The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.”
“Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer”
“I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.”

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