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
language impulse bolts
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
thinking ripple series
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
self location ifs
If self is a location, so is love.
believe i-forgive-you shore
Believe that a further shore...is reachable from here.
issues space political
On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.
effort community plies
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.
justice once-in-a-lifetime sides
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
way has-beens our-lives
The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
attitude home figure-skating
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
moving next-move next
The next move is always the test.
senior art way
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
dark doors knows
All I know is a door into the dark
way chance ifs
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
art ends art-is
The end of art is peace.