Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world.
Seamus HeaneyIt is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
Seamus HeaneyThe Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus Heaney