Seamus Heaney Quotes
Seamus Heaney Quotes
Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
2763The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.
3472I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
3515Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure
The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it.
2095History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme
4948If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
3292All I know is a door into the dark
2861It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark.
1687I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
4546There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
1866I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
2128He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross,
Clearly used to silence and an armchair:
Tonight the wife and children will be quiet
At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.
4935Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
2944Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
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