Seamus Heaney (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer and recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. Use this quote
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. Use this quote
Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. Use this quote
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Use this quote
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Use this quote
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Use this quote
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. Use this quote
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Use this quote
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
