Seamus Heaney Poetry Quotes

What did Seamus Heaney say about Poetry?

Seamus Heaney has written many quotes about Poetry. E.g.,

• 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.

What are the top most famous Poetry quotes by Seamus Heaney?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Poetry by Seamus Heaney.

• 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.
• I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
• Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
• The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.
• The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.