Quotes by : Seamus Heaney

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

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....

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests snug as a gun.

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

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk,....

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.