Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Seamus Heaney quotes and sayings page 2 (poet). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 102 we have.
“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.”
“The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.”
“I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.”
“I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.”
“The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.”
“At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.”
“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”
“The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.”
“A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.”
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