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Seamus Justin Heaney (born 1939-04-13) is a Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet, born and reared in Northern Ireland (in County Derry), and now living in Dublin. His books are said to account for two-thirds of the sales of living poets in Britain.
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- I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
- "Personal Helicon", line 19, from Eleven Poems (1965).
- The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I've no spade to follow men like them.
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.
- God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
- "Docker", line 10, from Death of a Naturalist.
- Is there life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,
We hug our little destiny again.
- "Whatever You Say Say Nothing", line 57, from North (1975).
- Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised
My passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised
To toast The Queen.
- History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
- "Doubletake", line 13, from The Cure at Troy (1990).[1]
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- För ett författarskap av lyrisk skönhet och etiskt djup, som lyfter fram vardagens mirakler och det levande förflutna.
- For works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.
- Heaney's 1995 Nobel diploma. [1] [2]
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