Author: Seamus Heaney

Quotes

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

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

- Seamus Heaney

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

- Seamus Heaney

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

- Seamus Heaney

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

- 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

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

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

- Seamus Heaney

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

- 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

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