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 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
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Seamus Heaney mysteriouspoetryrelationship Change image and share on social
Sonnet is about movement in a form. Seamus Heaney formmovementsonnet Change image and share on social
One of the best descriptions of the type of writer I am was given by Tom Paulin, who described himself as a 'binge' writer - like a binge drinker. I go on binges. Seamus Heaney bingedescriptiondrinker Change image and share on social
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself. Seamus Heaney eternallifereverence Change image and share on social
The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders. Seamus Heaney foundfounderkind Change image and share on social
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. Seamus Heaney graduateheartlearn Change image and share on social
