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Seamus Heaney Quotes

Irish - Poet | April 13, 1939 - August 30, 2013

I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Unexpected Said More Extraordinary

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

Person Cautious Ireland Naturally

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

Think Ground Like Ireland Rather

I've been in the habit of helping people.

Habit People Helping People Been

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Life Poetry Anything Arts Your

My experience is that prose usually equals duty - last minute, overdue-deadline stuff or a panic lecture to be written.

Experience Duty Panic Last Stuff

The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.

World Side Poet

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

Soul Hurt My Soul Brown Sean

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

Poetry Literature Go Within General

I spend almost every morning with mail.

Morning Mail Almost Every Spend

Your temperament is what you write with, but it's also how you deal with the world.

World You Write Deal Your How

The day I entered St Columb's College, my parents bought me a Conway Stewart pen. It was a special afternoon, of course. We were going to be parting that evening; they were aware of it, I was aware of it, nothing much was said about it.

Day Parents College Me Evening Pen

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