The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a w… - Seamus Heaney

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The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.

Seamus Heaney

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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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But when dawn broke and day crept in
over each empty, blood-spattered bench,
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would be slick with slaughter. And so they died,
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