Quotes by : Seamus Heaney

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

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

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.

Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

Fate goes ever as fate must.