Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.
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SEAMUS HEANEY I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1...
ADRIAN MCKINTY The tour is bracketed by the 18th-century mill and the 18th-century ferry landing.
GENE MCGUIRE But everything was done by hand in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN One doctor described it as 18th-century medicine.
HARRY ANDERSON I am a person of the 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI They didn't have pesticides in the 18th century.
DAVID NIELSEN If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the ...
CATHERINE MARTIN It's very special historic time, and there was a lot of change made in 18th century.
CECILIA BARTOLI Opera is an 18th- and 19th-century art that must find a 20th-century audience.
GOERAN GENTELE What we're trying to do is mix an 18th century building with 21st century building technology.
BRUCE LOWE One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century...
CLEMENT ATTLEE As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and gr...
ANN RADCLIFFE Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
SEAMUS HEANEY words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
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SEAMUS HEANEY The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpec...
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SEAMUS HEANEY One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himse...
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SEAMUS HEANEY The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
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SEAMUS HEANEY The next move is always the test.
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SEAMUS HEANEY Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is t...
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SEAMUS HEANEY Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into langu...
SEAMUS HEANEY As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of...
SEAMUS HEANEY But the thing uttered by the speaker I strain towards is still not quite the story of what is going ...
SEAMUS HEANEY Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
SEAMUS HEANEY The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the reso...
SEAMUS HEANEY I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
SEAMUS HEANEY In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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SEAMUS HEANEY In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
SEAMUS HEANEY All I know is a door into the dark
SEAMUS HEANEY Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.
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SEAMUS HEANEY You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.
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SEAMUS HEANEY When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit...
SEAMUS HEANEY Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
SEAMUS HEANEY Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
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SEAMUS HEANEY I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 E...
SEAMUS HEANEY History is philosophy teaching by examples.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT ... de jongen soo verbaast gaauw tegen de stijlte weer op liep, schreeuwende luijtkeels de schuijt v...
MARIA WILHELMINA LAMMENS Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'ROURKE Music and literature have always and continue to be massive influences. Writers such as Seamus Heane...
BRONAGH GALLAGHER Seamus, don’t jump!
JOSIE RIVIERA The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex ...
TOM REISS When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a patholog...
NICOLE KRAUSS The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and t...
M. H. ABRAMS The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-...
DAVID NIELSEN The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-cen...
WILLIAM MANCHESTER Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that...
BARBARA EHRENREICH (...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood...
W.B. YEATS Stop believing what you want to believe. It’s unbecoming
MAX BARRY If I had to choose between
betraying my country
or betraying my friend,
I hope I should have the
GUT...
E.M. FORSTER (18TH CENTURY WRITER) It's important to remember that the Jacobite Risings of the 18th century constituted a religious...
DIANA GABALDON In the late 18th century, the bird sound would have been considered high-tech science, like the adva...
DAVID HIGGS It encompasses practically every form and every style and every technique starting from the 13th cen...
JAMES WATT Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediate...
LADY SOPHIA FERMOR There are a surprising number of tapestries that survived from the 16th to 18th century. You can fin...
JEFFREY SMITH What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have co...
LYNNE TRUSS People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guita...
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