Quotes by : Seamus Heaney

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

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.....

I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.

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

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

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

DiggingBetween my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.Under my window, a clean rasping....