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
two buckets grew
Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.
sweet nymphs mind
Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.
soul body drink
I drink to keep body and soul apart.
mysterious wonder poetry-is
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
epic-poems two mind
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
green passports ifs
Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.
optimism conviction wells
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
thinking people understanding
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.
hope ifs
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.