Seamus Heaney Quotes
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Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.
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The appointment in Harvard gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.
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There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it.
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The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.
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Walk on air against your better judgement.
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If self is a location, so is love.
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To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.
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God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
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Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.
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I suppose I did feel a certain public pressure always.
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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.