263 Quotes by Seamus Heaney

Walk on air against your better judgement.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

If self is a location, so is love.

Believe that a further shore...is reachable from here.

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

On the contrary, a trust in the staying power and travel-worthiness of such good should encourage us to credit the possibility of a world where respect for the validity of every tradition will issue in the creation and maintenance of a salubrious political space.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.