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For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. — Seamus Heaney

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. — Seamus Heaney

Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling. — Seamus Dever

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

And here is love
like a tinsmith's scoop
sunk past its glean
in the meal-bin
Sunlight — 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

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

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching. — Seamus Heaney

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

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. — Seamus Heaney

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation. — Seamus Heaney

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

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. — 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

I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof. — Seamus Heaney

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment. — 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

It's not how hard of a punch you can throw, it's how hard of a punch you can take. — Seamus McGraw

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy — Seamus Costello

I like your heart, Seamus." She cups my cheek, kisses me softly on the corner of my mouth, and whispers, "My heart really likes your heart. — Kim Holden

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

Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere. — Seamus Heaney

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. — Seamus Heaney

As a young poet, you need corroboration, and that's what publication does. — 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

Read or do not read, there is no try". — Seamus

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

I cannot be weaned/Off the earth's long contour, her river-veins. — Seamus Heaney

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

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

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

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. — 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

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life. — 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

Be advised my passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised
to toast the Queen. — 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

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between. — Seamus Heaney

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

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror. — 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

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

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

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