Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.
Seamus HeaneyThe dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
Seamus HeaneyI've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney