Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere. Seamus Heaney More Quotes by Seamus Heaney More Quotes From Seamus Heaney Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic. Seamus Heaney toonorthern-irelandirelandborn In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. Seamus Heaney northern-irelandirelandusedpoetry Sonnet is about movement in a form. Seamus Heaney aboutsonnetmovementform I suppose you inevitably fall into habits of expression. Seamus Heaney habitsyouexpressionfall I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself. Seamus Heaney i-thinkgroundlikethink The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world. Seamus Heaney sidepoetworld Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution. Seamus Heaney greatadmirepoetryway My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. Seamus Heaney languagegodheavenreality
