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“ ”Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
About Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Additional quotes by Seamus Heaney
"Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?"
words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.