Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

"Spare those you conquer, crush those who overbear."
55 Quotes
"Spare those you conquer, crush those who overbear."
Seamus Heaney Aeneid Book VI
"And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line."
Seamus Heaney Beowulf
"“And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.”"
Seamus Heaney Beowulf
"“It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone,that will be his best and only bulwark.”"
Seamus Heaney Beowulf
"“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”"
Seamus Heaney Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
"In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart."
Seamus Heaney
"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
Seamus Heaney
"In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance."
Seamus Heaney
"The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go."
Seamus Heaney
"Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution."
Seamus Heaney
"Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home."
Seamus Heaney
"Poetry is more a threshold than a path."
Seamus Heaney
"The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write."
Seamus Heaney
"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
Seamus Heaney
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
Seamus Heaney
"Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry."
Seamus Heaney
"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."
Seamus Heaney
"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."
Seamus Heaney
"Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel."
Seamus Heaney
"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."
Seamus Heaney
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