Best Seamus Heaney Quotations
- In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. Faked
- My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the… Archaic
- In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And… Acquired
- I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression. Expression
- I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing… Actual
- You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. Identity
- I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for… Changed
- In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. Anglo
- I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. Background
- In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. Beauty
- A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious. Cautious
- I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. Feminine
- If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Arts
- My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. Deadline
- The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world. Poet
- The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul. Brown
- We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. Forwarded
- I spend almost every morning with mail. Almost Every
- Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. Bread
- Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep. Ones
- It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering… Attempt
- I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. Childhood
- Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers… Assent
- Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started. Been
- Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a… Call
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