In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEYIn Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
-
-
As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that’s what publication does.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland – it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins – I liked other poems… but Hopkins was kind of electric for me – he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
I’ve always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
Sonnet is about movement in a form.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
I would say that something important for me and for my generation in Northern Ireland was the 1947 Education Act, which allowed students who won scholarships to go on to secondary schools and thence to university.
SEAMUS HEANEY