“He 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.”
Seamus Heaney“More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney”
Seamus Heaney“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 poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.”
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“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“If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.”
Seamus Heaney