Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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Seamus Heaney quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 102 we have.

Seamus Heaney Quotes
“Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.”
“When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.”
“But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.”
Seamus Heaney Quotes
“The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.”

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