Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
SEAMUS HEANEYIn the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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The end of art is peace.
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In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.
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My experience is that prose usually equals duty – last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.
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I suppose you could say my father’s world was Thomas Hardy and my mother’s D.H. Lawrence.
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Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
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Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
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I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
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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.
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Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
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Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
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I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
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