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... →
Seamus Heaney
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.
I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense... →
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out... →
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion... →
If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly... →
Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it... →
Imogen Heap
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know... →
Patty Hearst
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
Thomas Heatherwick