Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIAwas an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 April 1939
CityCastledawson, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
Seamus Heaney quotes about
epic-poems two mind
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
issues space political
On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.
justice once-in-a-lifetime sides
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, And hope and history rhyme
effort community plies
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 the community as a whole.
way has-beens our-lives
The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
writing joy rewards
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
pilots witch losing-yourself
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
written
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
matter facts unexpected
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
realizing consciousness site
Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
risk world
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
space credit walks
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
poetry darkness rhyme
I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
dream writing night
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 sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.