I composed habits for those acres so that my last look woul… - Seamus Heaney

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I composed habits for those acres
so that my last look would be
neither gluttonous nor starved.
I was ready to go anywhere.

Seamus Heaney

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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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My poetry journey into the wilderness of language was a journey where each point of arrival turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination.

You carried your own burden and very soon your symptoms of creeping privilege disappeared.

Be the necklace-fire of stars,
The cauterizing lightning.
Bewilder us with good.

I composed habits for those acres so that my last look would be neither gluttonous nor starved. I was ready to go anywhere. - Seamus Heaney

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