Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker.
Seamus Heaney

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
Seamus Heaney

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.
Seamus Heaney

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

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.
Seamus Heaney

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus Heaney

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
Seamus Heaney

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney