Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. Seamus Heaney absolutionachieveadmire Change image and share on social
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep. Seamus Heaney poemswiftly Change image and share on social
There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know. Seamus Heaney irelandunite Change image and share on social
Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered with and, indeed, being taunted. Seamus Heaney banterhaverecognize Change image and share on social
The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul. Seamus Heaney brownhurtmurder Change image and share on social
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 avantbasicallyexperimental Change image and share on social
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them. Seamus Heaney argumentationaristocratbehavior share on social
It is very true to say that work done by writers is quite often an attempt to give solid expression to that which is bothering them... They feel they have got it right if they express the stress. Seamus Heaney attemptbotherexpress Change image and share on social
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. Seamus Heaney fakefeelingimagination Change image and share on social