I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it. -Seamus Heaney

 

I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.


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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Seamus Heaney

But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going on; it is more reflexive than that, because as a poet I am in fact straining towards a strain, seeking repose in the stability conferred by a musically satisfying order of sounds.

Seamus Heaney

I may have grown more attentive to the news and more alive to the world history and world-sorrow behind it.

Seamus Heaney

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Seamus Heaney

The next move is always the test.

Seamus Heaney