More From Seamus Heaney
- "A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
- "The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
- "Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
More In Humor
- "Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well."― V. S. Naipaul
- "As far as I’m concerned, there’s no job more important on the planet than being a mom."― Mark Wahlberg
- "I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard."― Richard Russo