Seamus Heaney Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)
Seamus Heaney quotes and sayings page 9 (poet). Here's quote # 81 through 90 out of the 102 we have.
“Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.”
“Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.”
“In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.”
“I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.”
“I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.”
“I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.”
“I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.”
“I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.”
“I've been in the habit of helping people.”
“In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.”
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