Quotes from Seamus Heaney translation

O hide me, hide me from myself

He might as well Be dead, for when you lose your happiness, I always say, you lose your life. You can dwell in state, have all the trappings of success and style, But if you can't enjoy them in your heart, What does it mean? If your joy in life's destroyed, You're left with a mirage. Shadows and ash.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.