I spend almost every morning with mail.
SEAMUS HEANEYEven if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
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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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I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.
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I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.
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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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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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One doesn’t want one’s identity coerced.
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Sonnet is about movement in a form.
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History says, ‘Don’t hope on this side of the grave.’
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I’m very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination – poets in particular.
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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
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The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
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Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
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