Seamus Heaney Quotes and its meanings

Seamus Heaney has written on many topics. Some of the topics he has discussed most are as follows;

Attitude Hope Marriage Peace Poetry Positive Relationship Trust

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What does Seamus Heaney write about?

Seamus Heaney has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about attitude, hope, marriage, peace, poetry, positive, relationship & trust. People always share Attitude quotes, Hope quotes, marriage, peace, poetry, positive, relationship & trust from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Seamus Heaney?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Seamus Heaney.

  • At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
  • Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
  • Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.
  • In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
  • Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
  • A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
  • As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
  • But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.