Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIAwas an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth13 April 1939
CityCastledawson, Northern Ireland
CountryIreland
dream writing night
The 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.
inspirational art fundamentals
The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.
space credit walks
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
writing self giving
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
strange huge
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
writing self empowerment
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.
writing
Write whatever you like!
pilots witch losing-yourself
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
reality citizens realism
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
written
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
writing joy rewards
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
wisdom air judgement
Walk on air against your better judgement.
writing self forgetful
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
risk world
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.