Author: Seamus Heaney

Quotes

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

- Seamus Heaney

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

- Seamus Heaney

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 on the judging panel.

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 on the judging panel.

- Seamus Heaney

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

- Seamus Heaney

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

- Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

- Seamus Heaney

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.

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.

- Seamus Heaney

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

- Seamus Heaney

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

- Seamus Heaney

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