Author: Seamus Heaney

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

- 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

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

- 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

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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