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

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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