Quotes by : Seamus Heaney

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

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

All I know is a door into the dark

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

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say....

It is a great wonderHow Almighty God in his magnificenceFavors our race with rank and scopeAnd the gift....

It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.For every one of us, living in this....

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you....

Fate goes ever as fate must.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.