Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.”

“I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.”

“Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.”

“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.”

“I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.”

“Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.”

“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.”