List of Seamus Heaney Quotes

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Seamus Heaney
Total Quotes 113
I am not a playwright. a playwright would take "antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. my versioning was strictly verbal.
Shapes Antigone Clout
Irish readers, british readers, american readers: is it odd that i haven't a clue about how differently they react? or better say, i cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.
Clue Odd Hunches
The bogholes might be atlantic seepage. the wet centre is bottomless.
Might Wetness Centre
Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though i didnt actually do much composition on the spot.
Writing Harvard Spots
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Forgiveness Sea Forgiving
The appointment [in harvard] gave me economic safety, writerly support, and intellectual self-respectplus eight months to myself every year.
Eight Self Years
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the ira were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
Mean Perception Brutality
The ireland i now inhabit is one that these irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Imagine Ireland
When i first encountered the name of the city of stockholm, i little thought that i would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the swedish academy and the nobel foundation.
Cities Names Mind
My body was braille for the creeping influences.
Body Influence Braille
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Expectations Political Groups
I shall gain glory or die.
Gains Glory Dies
  • Born: April 13, 1939
  • Died: August 30, 2013
  • Occupation: Poet
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