Seamus Heaney (scribble art print poster)

Q01 - If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Q02 - Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Q03 - Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Q04 - I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Q05 - Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Q06 - Walk on air against your better judgement.

Q07 - Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Q08 - If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Q09 - The end of art is peace.

Q10 - Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Q11 - Two buckets were easier carried than one. I grew up in between.

Q12 - I’m a firm believer in learning by heart.

Q13 - Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Q14 - The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

Q15 - Human beings suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured.

Q16 - Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy.

He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen's University and began to publish poetry. Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997, and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006. From 1989 to 1994, he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford.

He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as “the most important Irish poet since Yeats”, and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was “the greatest poet of our age”.

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