Seamus Heaney

But that citizen’s perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the…

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it…

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which…

At home in Ireland, there’s a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority…

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of…

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible…

The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis…

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my…

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained…

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make…

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within…

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the…