Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Seamus Heaney quotes and sayings page 6 (poet). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 102 we have.
“Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.”
“The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.”
“To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.”
“A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.”
“Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.”
“Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.”
“History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'”
“I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.”
“I spend almost every morning with mail.”
“I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.”
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