{"author":"Seamus Heaney","author_id":"Seamus+Heaney","total_quotes":58,"quotes":[{"text":"I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["poetry"],"id":3190,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["kind","write","experimental "],"id":23825,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home.In the porch I met my father crying—He had always taken funerals in his stride—And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow.The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pramWhen I came in, and I was embarrassedBy old men standing up to shake my handAnd tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble'.Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest,Away at school, as my mother held my handIn hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs.At ten o'clock the ambulance arrivedWith the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses.Next morning I went up into the room. SnowdropsAnd candles soothed the bedside; I saw himFor the first time in six weeks. Paler now,Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple,He lay in the four-foot box as in his cot.No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear.A four-foot box, a foot for every year.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["death","grief","loss"],"id":35518,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"All I know is a door into the dark.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["darkness","poetry"],"id":55537,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["poetry"],"id":57504,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["poetry","poets","prosody"],"id":65382,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["peace","political","personal "],"id":66516,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"I spend almost every morning with mail.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["almost","spend","mail "],"id":66556,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["history","chapter","now "],"id":71141,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"},{"text":"Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.","author":"Seamus Heaney","tags":["art","home","most "],"id":83335,"author_id":"Seamus+Heaney"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}