263 Quotes by Seamus Heaney

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.

I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression.

I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

I've been in the habit of helping people.

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.