Best Seamus Heaney Quotes
- The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Completely
- At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. Attitude
- The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself -… Arrival
- I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. Begun
- Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Always Slightly
- There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. Inspirational
- Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. Fire
- As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Aesthetic
- The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. Contemporaries
- Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get… Arm
- A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Approvable
- In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Becomes
- Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. Consciousness
- When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being… Academy
- But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were… Based
- My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland,… Anyone
- Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left… Believe
- It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for… Always Better
- 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… Bearings
- Walk on air against your better judgement. Air
- The end of art is peace. Art
- 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 going on in… Case
- I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job Actually Part
- The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of… Aim
- Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. Bastion
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