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Heaney Quotes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Bogland" | " We have no prairies to slice a big sun at evening" |
| "Bogland" | "Is wooed into the cyclops' eye" |
| "Bogland" | " Is bog that keeps crusting" |
| "Bogland" | " The ground itself is kind,black butter" |
| "Bogland" | "Melting and opening underfoot" |
| "Bogland" | "The bog holes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless" |
| "ACC" | "His bicycle stood at the window-sill, the rubber cowl of a mud-splasher skirting the front mudguard" |
| "ACC" | "The pedal treads hanging relieved of the boot of the law" |
| "ACC" | " The line of its pressure ran like a bevel in his slightly sweating hair." |
| "ACC" | " Arithmetic and fear" |
| "ACC" | " I assumed small guilts and sat imagining the black hole in the barracks" |
| "ACC" | "A shadow bobbed in the window. He was snapping the carrier spring over the ledger. His boot pushed off and the bicycle ticked, ticked, ticked" |
| "The Skunk" | "Up, black, striped and damasked like the chasuble" |
| "The Skunk" | "The skunk's tail paraded the skunk" |
| "The Skunk" | "The refrigerator whinnied into silence" |
| "The Skunk" | "Broaching the word 'wife' like a stored casket" |
| "The Skunk" | "Snuffing the boards five feet beyond me" |
| "The Skunk" | " By the sootfall of your things at bedtime" |
| "THB" | "As you plaited the harvest bow" |
| "THB" | "A throwaway love-knot of straw" |
| "THB" | " I tell and finger it like braille" |
| "THB" | " Me with the fishing rod, already homesick for the big lift of these evenings, as your stick" |
| "THB" | "But flushes nothing: that original townland" |
| "THB" | "Like a drawn snare" |
| "TU" | "There we were in a vaulted tunnel" |
| "TU" | " And me, me like a fleet god gaining" |
| "TU" | "Or some new white flower japped with crimson as the coat flapped wild and button after button" |
| "TU" | "I come as Hansel came on the moonlit stones retracing the path back, lifting the buttons" |
| "TU" | "Bared and tensed as i am, all attention for your step following and damned if i look back" |
| "A Call" | " 'Hold on', she said, 'I'll just run out and get him'" |
| "A Call" | "Touching, inspecting, separating one stalk from the other, gently pulling up everything not tapered, frail and leafless" |
| "A Call" | "The amplified grave ticking of hall clocks" |
| "A Call" | "This is how Death would summon Everyman" |
| "A Call" | "Next thing he spoke and i nearly said i loved him" |
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