Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
From Seamus Heaney
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.
My passport's green.
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.
I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the family, and the houses I associate with his side of the family, belonged to a traditional rural Ireland.
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
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