Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

Seamus Heaney quotes and sayings page 10 (poet). Here's quote # 91 through 100 out of the 102 we have.

“In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.”

“Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.”

“The end of art is peace.”

“There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.”

“What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.”

“Yeats was 18th-century oratory, almost.”

“You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport.”

“You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.”

“One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges.”

“I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.”