Famous Seamus Heaney Quotes

  • Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro. – Seamus Heaney

    Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro.– Seamus Heaney

  • That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell. – Seamus Heaney

    That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.– Seamus Heaney

  • More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney – Seamus Heaney

    More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney– Seamus Heaney

  • Fate goes ever as fate must. – Seamus Heaney

    Fate goes ever as fate must.– Seamus Heaney

  • words…To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order. – Seamus Heaney

    words…To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.– Seamus Heaney

  • Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. – Seamus Heaney

    Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.– Seamus Heaney

  • The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life. – Seamus Heaney

    The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.– Seamus Heaney