District and Circle Quotes

“If self is a location, so is love:
Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points,
Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance,
Here and there and now and then, a stance.”
― Seamus Heaney, District and Circle

“I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.”
― Seamus Heaney, District and Circle

“Anything can happen, the tallest towers
Be overturned, those in high places daunted,
Those overlooked regarded.”
― Seamus Heaney, District and Circle

“Axe-thumps outside
like wave-hits through
a night ferry:
you
whom I cleave to, hew to,
splitting firewood.”
― Seamus Heaney, District and Circle