105 result(s) for Seamus Heaney Quotes.
"If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original."
"The poem is a little creature, a little being that you find or that you make in your imagination."
"History says, 'You will be tried and eventually caught.' Poetry says, 'You might get away with it.'"
"The world is full of poetry, but it is not easy to decide what it has to say and how it has to be said."
"What can be more exciting, you might ask, than looking at an art work and seeing all the layers that are concealed beneath the surface?"
"There are no plots, there are only people."
"Poetry is the language of the heart."
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"We are all the same, we all represent the same thing, which is the humanity in us."
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
"There is no such thing as a good poet; only good poems."
"Every poem is a love poem."
"The task of the poet is to make a stone with a heart."
"In the end, poets are like bees: they go from flower to flower, gathering honey."
"In any rich text, you will find layers, shading, wandering, and the surprise of what appears."
"All poetry is a form of dream work."
"To be a poet, you must be part of the human experience and represent that experience in a way that is symbolic."
"Beauty is the greatest mystery of the world."
"Poetry can be a path through which people find their way back to the places they belong."
"Every poem is the open door through which we may pass into the journey of the heart."
"Life is not a riddle; it is an adventure."
"The best way to understand a person is to listen to their poetry."
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"Poems should be made, not found."
"Language is the first thing you learn, and language is what, in the end, fights all the battles for you."
"The poet is not a man who has a theme; he is a man who has a song."
"Each poem is an outcome of a long journey through life, love, and the search for understanding."
"Art is a way of being human."
"If you have the names of the things you belong to, you can belong to the things."
"The soil under the grass is dreaming of a place called heaven."
"Words are all we have."
"It is not what you do that matters, but how you do it."
"The past is always there to be dug up."
"What you don’t know is what you can’t know."
"A good poet is a good human being."
"I have no idea what it is about my writing that is supposed to be tranquil."
"Hope is not a matter of force; it’s a matter of openness."
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"The best thing about being a poet is that you’re always on a quest."
"You can’t take away the past, but you can learn to live with it."
"Poetry is not about making the right choices; it's about making the wrong ones."
"The imagination is a winged thing."
"The danger is in being constantly self-congratulatory."
"A man’s life is like a garden."
"Your true self is always somewhere in the poems."
"I couldn’t be a poet without the ground beneath my feet."
"I have always been interested in the relationship between the past and the present."
"There's no such thing as a poet's poem; it's always a people's poem."
"Courage is a hard thing to come by."
"Art is a means of survival."
"Language is the only instrument of perception."
"I am a man of one piece."
"Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."
"The act of writing is an act of reclamation."
"Every poem is a love letter."
"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."
"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree."
"History is a story written by the victors."
"Every failure is a step to success."
"My poetry is a reflection of my life and the life of my people."
"We are the ancients, we are the moderns. We are the hunters, we are the hunted."
"The soul is a storm, and it acknowledges the raindrops of life."
"There’s no such thing as a perfect poem. It’s all about the journey."
"You search for a first line, and the first line finds you."
"Poetry and memory are so intertwined."
"Sometimes you have to stop, take a step back, and let life catch up with you."
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
"A man who is afraid will be in trouble."
"Language can be like a polluted river, and poetry is the way to cleanse it."
"It is the little things in life that count."
"The past is not dead; it is not even past."
"You do not need to know everything, you just need courage."
"To be a poet is to be a politician."
"A poem is a little myth of the mind, drawn from life just as life is drawn from myth."
"Knowing is not a matter of thinking but a matter of knowing."
"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
"The blood of my culture is in my poetry."
"All that we see is but a dream within a dream."
"Life is a gift, but it’s also a debt we owe to ourselves."
"Nature is the ultimate healer and teacher."
"The light of a fire is a great place to begin."
"If you're lucky enough to be inspired by something, don't hesitate to seize it."
"Words are perishable; they are not the thing itself."
"Every writer is a writer of the world."
"What is an artist but a dreamer?"
"Poetry can create a voice."
"I want to be able to catch that moment of beauty in my writing."
"A poem is a little mystery, and the poet is the detective."
"Language is a part of what makes us human."
"In the end, it’s about understanding our own humanity."
"History is a story that never ends."
"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
"Every poem is a story; every story is a form."
"The act of writing is an act of discovery."
"The richness of the mind can be expressed in the simplest terms."
"Poetry is a seamless fabric; it comforts, torments, and challenges."
"I learn to listen to the voices of others."
"The environment is part of the poetry."
"It is through stories that we connect with others."
"A poet’s job is to bring understanding to the mystery of existence."
"The poet must invent and create new perceptions."
"Beauty is not found just in the refined; it exists in the raw."
"The past is not dead; it’s very much alive in the present."
"Imagery is the lifeblood of poetry."
"We write not only to express but to understand."
"A culture is as sustainable as its stories."
"Great poetry reminds us how hard it is to be human."
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