What did Seamus Heaney mean by: Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem “Digging - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland Copy
+ I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Joy, Rewards, Writing, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind. Feraz Zeid, August 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Seamus Heaney, Mind, Sweet, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ If you have the words, there’s always a chance that you’ll find the way. Feraz Zeid, June 26, 2023December 29, 2023, Seamus Heaney, Chance, Hope, Words, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Hope, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, God, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Wherever that man went, he went gratefully. Feraz Zeid, August 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Seamus Heaney, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Oneself, Stepping Stones, Stones, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Keep Smiling, Miles, Rhythm, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. - Jeff Cooper Firearms instructor and author
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way. - Jerry Garcia
When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it. - William J. Clinton Politician · USA
We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans. - William J. Clinton Politician · USA
