Heaney

Seamus Heaney died today.

Here’s his speech from when he won the Nobel Prize in1995, and here’s a short poem of his, also from 1995:

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Remembered Columns

By Seamus Heaney

The solid letters of the world grew airy.

The marble serifs, the clearly blocked uprights

Built upon rocks and set upon the heights

Rose like remembered columns in a story

About the Virgin’s house that rose and flew

And landed on the hilltop at Loreto.

I lift my eyes in a light-headed credo,

Discovering what survives translation true.