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
writing impulse ifs
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.
strange huge
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
writing self empowerment
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
writing self forgetful
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
writing
Write whatever you like!
language impulse bolts
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
shapes antigone clout
I am not a playwright. A playwright would take Antigone and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.
heart believer firm
Im a firm believer in learning by heart.
hands years listening
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 my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
body influence braille
My body was braille for the creeping influences.
imagine ireland
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
wetness might centre
The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless.
lyric-poetry facts truthfulness
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
distance taken self
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 then, a stance.