A collection of thoughts and quotes by Seamus Heaney on poetry, plays, writing, expression, voice, life, feelings, hope, peace, words and literature.
45 Thoughful Quotes By Seamus Heaney For The Poet In You
Seamus Heaney was an acclaimed Irish poet and lecturer, also considered to be a remarkable playwright and translator. During his graduation on English Language and Literature in Belfast he came across Ted Hughes’s ‘Lupercal’ which inspired him to write poems. Heaney through a majority of his works praised the beauty of nature and this helped him gain great popularity in the United Kingdom. He also wrote persuasive poems on love and mythology. Many of his works are written as a memory of his upbringings in the rural area of North Ireland. He worked as a professor at Harvard and Oxford. He was honored with the ‘Nobel Prize for Literature’ in 1995 among various other awards. Read on the compilation of quotations and thoughts which have been curated from his books, poems, lectures, plays, dialogues and work. Go through these quotes and sayings by Seamus Heaney that highlight his wonderful way of imparting wisdom with the help of poetry.