Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.”

“One doesn't want one's identity coerced.”

“Poetry is more a threshold than a path.”

“Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted.”

“The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.”

“The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.”

“Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.”

“My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.”

“I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it.”

“I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you.”