The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died.
Tributes paid to ‘keeper of language’ Seamus Heaney:
Poet's death has brought a 'great sorrow' to Ireland
The Irish Times : read article here
Friday 30 August 2013
What a refuge and inspiration, still, to listen to Heaney online.
To be reminded of the power of language at this time in Australia when we are a week from a Federal Election and everyone is sick to death of the bombardments of exhausted and debased wordage.
Click here for Seamus Heaney's 1995 Nobel acceptance speech
"It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power..."
"It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power..."
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