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Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Believe that a further shore is reachable from here."

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

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




Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done."

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I 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."

I 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.




Seamus Heaney Quotes: "If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way."

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



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "History 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"

History 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



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.




Seamus Heaney Quotes: "All I know is a door into the dark"

All I know is a door into the dark



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green."

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I drink to keep body and soul apart."

I drink to keep body and soul apart.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.




Seamus Heaney Quotes: "The end of art is peace."

The end of art is peace.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life."

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again."

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between."

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks."

I might enjoy being an albatross, being able to glide for days and daydream for hundreds of miles along the thermals. And then being able to hang like an affliction round some people's necks.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started."

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Walk on air against your better judgement."

Walk on air against your better judgement.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself."

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind."

Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive."

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."

I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole."

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing."

I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art"

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "The next move is always the test."

The next move is always the test.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

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



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance."

If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now and then, a stance.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well."

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere."

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself."

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging"

Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem "Digging



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time."

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one."

You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over."

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Wherever that man went, he went gratefully."

Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."

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 Quotes: "The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

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 Quotes: "Whether 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."

Whether 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.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it."

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear."

Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Poetry is language in orbit."

Poetry is language in orbit.



Seamus Heaney Quotes: "Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.