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title: "Best Poetry Quotes by Seamus Heaney"
description: "65 Poetry quotes by Seamus Heaney. Plus more from Seamus Heaney and more Poetry sayings from other authors."
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> [In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/in-poetry-everything-can-be-faked-but-the-intensity-of-utterance/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/between-my-finger-and-my-thumb-the-squat-pen-rests-snug-as-a-gun-from/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/as-a-young-poet-you-need-corroboration-and-that-s-what-publication/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/i-m-very-conscious-that-people-dear-to-me-are-alive-in-my-imagination/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/poetry-is-always-slightly-mysterious-and-you-wonder-what-is-your/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [“words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/words-to-lure-the-tribal-shoals-to-epigram-and-order/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/anybody-serious-about-poetry-knows-how-hard-it-is-to-achieve-anything/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/we-go-to-poetry-we-go-to-literature-in-general-to-be-forwarded-within/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/memory-has-always-been-fundamental-for-me-in-fact-remembering-what-i/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/the-completely-solitary-self-that-s-where-poetry-comes-from-and-it/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/desmond-o-grady-is-one-of-the-senior-figures-in-irish-literary-life/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [“He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/he-sits-strong-and-blunt-as-a-celtic-cross-clearly-used-to-silence/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/in-a-war-situation-or-where-violence-and-injustice-are-prevalent/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/every-time-you-read-a-poem-aloud-to-yourself-in-the-presence-of/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/poetry-cannot-afford-to-lose-its-fundamentally-self-delighting/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/in-the-united-states-in-poetry-workshops-it-s-now-quite-a-thing-to/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/manifesting-that-order-of-poetry-where-we-can-at-last-grow-up-to-that/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [ The poems I did write there \[in Harvard\] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/the-poems-i-did-write-there-in-harvard-include-alphabets-the-1984-phi/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/a-writer-is-not-different-from-a-reader-in-that-the-common-ragbag-of/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/the-experimental-poetry-thing-is-not-my-thing-it-s-a-programme-of-the/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/best-to-say-that-once-a-poem-is-finished-i-trust-it-to-make-its-way/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/i-can-t-think-of-a-case-where-poems-changed-the-world-but-what-they/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/tom-sleigh-s-poetry-is-hard-earned-and-well-founded-i-great-admire/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/a-public-expectation-it-has-to-be-said-not-of-poetry-as-such-but-of/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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> [The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/the-kind-of-poet-who-founds-and-reconstitutes-values-is-somebody-like/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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## More by Seamus Heaney

> [You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/you-had-to-come-back-to-learn-how-to-lose-yourself-to-be-pilot-and/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/if-self-is-a-location-so-is-love-bearings-taken-markings-cardinal/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/i-m-very-conscious-that-people-dear-to-me-are-alive-in-my-imagination/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/once-i-was-on-the-job-once-i-had-got-started-i-felt-safe-enough-but/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/you-can-have-irish-identity-in-the-north-and-also-have-your-irish/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/the-external-reality-and-inner-dynamic-of-happenings-in-northern/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/hope-for-a-great-sea-change-timid-to-rebuke-and-too-petty-to-forgive/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/one-of-the-very-first-poems-i-wrote-was-docker-that-fist-would-drop-a/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) \[on which the poem…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally-a-poem-that-arose-from/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/poetry-is-always-slightly-mysterious-and-you-wonder-what-is-your/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/sink-every-impulse-like-a-bolt-secure-the-bastion-of-sensation-do-not/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/two-buckets-were-easier-carried-than-one-i-grew-up-in-between/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/i-suppose-i-m-saying-that-defiance-is-actually-part-of-the-lyric-job/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [“It is said that once upon a time St. Kevin was kneeling with his arms stretched out in the form of a cross in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/it-is-said-that-once-upon-a-time-st-kevin-was-kneeling-with-his-arms/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

> [My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seamus-heaney/my-father-and-mother-had-no-sense-of-entitlement-for-their-children/)

[Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seamus-heaney/)

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