Seamus Heaney Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Giving

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

• Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

  Seamus Heaney

  Awards, Judging, Giving

• There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.

  Seamus Heaney

  Giving, Add, Built

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