Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Seamus Heaney quotes and sayings page 5 (poet). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 102 we have.
“In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.”
“In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.”
“Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.”
“I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.”
“In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.”
“It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.”
“My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.”
“As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does.”
“Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.”
“My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.”
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