Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead. Seamus Heaney breadbreakdead Change image and share on social
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 completelycrisisintimate Change image and share on social
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.' Seamus Heaney gravehistoryhope Change image and share on social
I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression. Seamus Heaney expressionfallhabit Change image and share on social
I spend almost every morning with mail. Seamus Heaney mailmorningspend Change image and share on social
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. Seamus Heaney forwardgeneralliterature Change image and share on social
My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written. Seamus Heaney deadlinedutyequal Change image and share on social
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. Seamus Heaney admitafterlifedimension share on social
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. Seamus Heaney fatherhardylawrence Change image and share on social
If you go into an underground train in London - probably anywhere, but chiefly in London - there's that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don't exchange many pleasantries. Seamus Heaney chieflydimensionenter share on social
