Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily
A daily quote from the poetry, prose & translations of Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate in Literature. Bellaghy Derry, Ireland Joined September 2013-
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The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to shake my hand
In the porch I met my father crying— He had always taken funerals in his stride— And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.
Into your virtual city I’ll have passed Unregistered by scans, screens, hidden eyes, Lapping myself in time, an absorbed face Coming and going, neither god nor ghost, Not at odds or at one, but simply lost
So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracle And cures and healing wells.
So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracle And cures and healing wells.
On you go now! Run, son, like the devil And tell your mother to try To find me a bubble for the spirit level And a new knot for this tie’ …Putting it up to him With a smile that trumped his smile and his fool’s errand, Waiting for the next move in the game.
At their inauguration, public leaders must swear to uphold unwritten law and weep to atone for their presumption to hold office.
It’s you, blackbird, I love… The automatic lock Clunks shut, the blackbird’s panic Is shortlived, for a second I’ve a bird’s eye view of myself, A shadow on raked gravel In front of my house of life On the grass when I arrive, In the ivy when I leave. RIP Charlie
Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall.
Vowels ploughed into other: opened ground. The mildest February for twenty years Is mist bands over furrows, a deep no sound Vulnerable to distant gargling tractors. Our road is steaming, the turned-up acres breathe.
In the wet gap of the year, Daubed with fresh lake mud, I faltered near his power — January God.
As if he had been poured in tar, he lies on a pillow of turf and seems to weep the black river of himself. The grain of his wrists is like bog oak, the ball of his heel like a basalt egg. His instep has shrunk cold as a swan’s foot or a wet swamp root.
Clearances that suddenly stood open. High cries were felled and a pure change happened.
A light appeared and the place brightened the way the sky does when heaven’s candle is shinning clearly
On Christmas Eve my father would tell us, “He’s on his way now, coming round Slieve Gallon, if you listen hard maybe you’ll hear the sleigh bells.” I remember climbing the beech tree at the end of our lane, listening through the frosty air.
Ireland said goodbye to an Irish poet & balladeer today. I could have been someone Well so could anyone You took my dreams from me When I first found you I kept them with me babe I put them with my own Can't make it all alone I've built my dreams around you Shane MacGowan RIP
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
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Sinéad O’Connor was braver than brave. May she rest in peace.
Trigger warning 🌼 Aged 6 this little lad lived with his mam who was suffering from severe mental health conditions. The local gang used his vulnerability for their entertainment. One evening that gang carried him to the second floor of the local block of flats & forced him to…
@KillianM2 This song version wud melt the ice caps 👏🏻 especially her inclusion of a previously unheard last verse where she refers to the ‘sire-land’ & alludes to ‘God’ as ‘She’
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@HeaneyDaily Tears at the heartstrings, god help all those families who are experiencing the devastating and tragic losses of their little ones this weekend💔🙏
@HeaneyDaily anyone who is a parent, a brother or a sister will feel this one heart deep. my condolences to the families in tallaght and Waterford who lost the most precious gifts in life this weekend. may they find some comfort in the joys they shared during thier babies too short lives
On this day in 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force across the British Empire. Instead of compensating slaves, the Government took out the biggest loan in history to pay off the slavers: £300bn in today's money. We only finished paying it off in 2015 #EmancipationDay
@HeaneyDaily @Ermione42 Every time I read the verse ... "My last things will be first things slipping from me", I think of my mom and at her illness made her forget the most recent things. 🥺😢
@HeaneyDaily I, too, know the pain of seeing a four foot box. Although my little girl was just days shy of 4 years when that box was lowered into the ground.
It’s true. But I’ve learned that in the absence of words, in that feeling, it’s there. Maybe that’s inner Ninja power. Then there is still a way.
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
Just to clarify though ... this is from Martin’s speech and not a Heaney quote? Am I missing the reference?
“The days are getting shorter and colder, but I ask you to remember: even as the winter comes in, there is hope and there is light." Perseverance.
@HeaneyDaily @CormacRussell Thankyou these words helped in a week where I scattered my Mums ashes and felt overwhelmed by the unknown.
@HeaneyDaily I don't know who you are, picking out morsels by this fabulous poet, but you so often say what I'm feeling...
Lovely simplicity and the artist @ErnestoneHoy Michael Hoy at work . x.com/heaneydaily/st…
I have gone to the old place we sometimes reach in sleep. Seamus Heaney left us four years ago today.
It was a privilege to photograph Fermanagh sculptor @ErnestoneHoy carving the late Seamus Heaney's headstone. x.com/heaneydaily/st…
I have gone to the old place we sometimes reach in sleep. Seamus Heaney left us four years ago today.
Whoever is doing the Heaney tweets these days is nailing the mood and context of the past few days x.com/heaneydaily/st…
I have opened the closed road Between the living and the dead To make the right road clear to you.
Words used today by @DUPleader while paying tribute to Martin McGuinness x.com/heaneydaily/st…
So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that a farther shore Is reachable from here.
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