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It is very true to say that w...

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 them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

As a young poet, you need cor...

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

I've always associated the mo...

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

The day I entered St Columb's...

The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

In a war situation or where v...

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

My point is there's a hidden ...

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, but Ireland generally.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry ...

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

I always believed that whatev...

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

I credit poetry for making th...

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

The kind of poet who founds a...

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

I think childhood is, general...

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

The amount of sensory materia...

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

Memory has always been fundam...

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

Sonnet is about movement in a...

Sonnet is about movement in a form.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

In the United States, in poet...

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

Even if the last move did not...

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

I have begun to think of life...

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Pro...

Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.

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I'm a firm believer in learni...

I'm a firm believer in learning by heart.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

Poetry is what we do to break...

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

Seamus Heaney 112 quotes

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