Best Seamus Heaney Sayings
- If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. Chance
- History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up,… Don T
- It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace… Abattoir
- Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. Admired
- All I know is a door into the dark All
- Once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour. I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair That all the lovely… All
- In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping. Beam
- The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away. Dotted
- Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. Anyone
- I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. Darkness
- Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging Digging
- So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures… Believe
- I shall gain glory or die. Die
- The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the… Breast
- Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive Change
- Poetry is more a threshold than a path. More
- Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. Achieve
- The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. Beyond
- Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost. Century
- My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. Children
- The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. Founders
- Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself. Eternal
- In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. Helicopters
- The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. Faking
- Sonnet is about movement in a form. Form
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