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.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’

Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel.

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.