Quotes by : Seamus Heaney

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver....

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

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something....

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable....

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding....

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace....

Mid-Term BreakI sat all morning in the college sick bayCounting bells knelling classes to a close.At....

History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal....