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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. — Seamus Heaney

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. — Seamus Heaney

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. — Seamus Heaney

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. — Seamus Heaney

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

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. — Seamus Heaney

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. — Seamus Heaney

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. — Seamus Heaney

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way. — Seamus Heaney

Poetry is language in orbit. — Seamus Heaney

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. — Seamus Heaney

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job — Seamus Heaney

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. — Seamus Heaney

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. — Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home. — Seamus Heaney

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. — Seamus Heaney

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write. — Seamus Heaney

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. — Seamus Heaney

I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. — Seamus Heaney

Since when," he asked,
"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends? — Seamus Heaney

Words ... To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order. — Seamus Heaney

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance. — Seamus Heaney

All I know is a door into the dark — Seamus Heaney

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it. — Seamus Heaney

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole. — Seamus Heaney

Poetry is more a threshold than a path. — Seamus Heaney

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. — Seamus Heaney

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. — Seamus Heaney