Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world. Seamus Heaney dealtemperamentworld Change image and 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 kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the resonance of an encyclical from the Pope stating an eternal truth, but they partake of the quality of eternity. There is a sort of timeless delight in them. Seamus Heaney artdelightencyclical 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
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on. Seamus Heaney changeelectricgerard share on social
Sonnet is about movement in a form. Seamus Heaney formmovementsonnet Change image and share on social
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. Seamus Heaney basebrutalitychange share on social
I think that water is immediately interesting. It's just, as an element, it is full of life. It is associated with origin; it is bright - it reflects you. Seamus Heaney brightelementfull 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 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
