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Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.
— Seamus Heaney
For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them.
— 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
Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear.
— 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
I spend almost every morning with mail.
— Seamus Heaney
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
— Seamus Heaney
I've nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
— Seamus Heaney
There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
— Seamus Heaney
I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
— Seamus Heaney
There is nothing like being on stage.
— Seamus Dever
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
— Seamus Heaney
You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.
— Seamus McGarvey
I am an old school sort of syndicated cartoon watcher. I'm a big fan of Voltron, too.
— Seamus Dever
I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.
— Seamus Heaney
I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.
— Seamus Heaney
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
— Seamus Heaney
Seamus walked a direct line to Frank and handed him the gun, backwards, with the barrel open.
— Amy Vansant
The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.
— Seamus Deane
If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.
— Seamus McDuff
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.
— Seamus Heaney
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
— Seamus Heaney
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
— Seamus Heaney
In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
— Christopher Paolini
God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.
— Seamus Heaney
If self is a location, so is love.
— Seamus Heaney
I owe my allegiance to the working class.
— Seamus Costello
I drink to keep body and soul apart.
— 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
To encounter 'Beowulf' is like taking a sledgehammer to a quarry face. You must bang in there.
— Seamus Heaney
The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy
— Seamus Costello
Words ... To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.
— Seamus Heaney
Yes, my name is Seamus - pronounced SHAY-mus - Rafael Goldberg. Try being five with that name.
— Bill Konigsberg
Was music once a proof of God's existence? As long as it admits things beyond measure, That supposition stands.
— Seamus Heaney
A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.
— Seamus Dever
The dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
— Seamus Heaney
A four foot box, a foot for every year.
— Seamus Heaney
Seamus can't be the king to my queen. Because he's a saint. And no one measures up to a saint.
— Kim Holden
That's how I knew, for example, that Private Seamus Fletcher, 45B-76423, was beating his wife and children every night.
— Tahereh Mafi
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
It's interesting vocalizing something that is visual.
— Seamus McGarvey
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
— Seamus Heaney
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
— Seamus Heaney
documents, he placed them in a stiffened
— Seamus O'Griffin
Let whoever can win glory before death.
— Seamus Heaney
Poetry is more a threshold than a path.
— Seamus Heaney
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
— Seamus Heaney
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.
— Seamus Heaney
If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision.
— Seamus Dever
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver
Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney
I shall gain glory or die.
— Seamus Heaney
The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.
— Seamus Heaney
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
— Seamus Heaney
It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.
— Seamus Dever
I wanted to shoot the sex scenes unadorned so that the actors could really live in the moment.
— Seamus McGarvey
I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.
— Seamus Heaney
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
— Seamus Heaney
In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
— Seamus Heaney
I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing. — Seamus Heaney
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
— Seamus Heaney
There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
— Seamus Heaney
Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends? — Seamus Heaney
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
— 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
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
All I know is a door into the dark
— Seamus Heaney
One doesn't want one's identity coerced.
— Seamus Heaney
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
— Seamus Heaney
That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.
— Seamus Heaney
Then I thought of the tribe whose dances never fail / For they keep dancing till they sight the deer.
— Seamus Heaney
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
— Seamus Heaney
My passport's green.
— Seamus Heaney