68 quotes found
Poet · Irish · 1939–2013
Irish poet (1939–2013)
“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”
“The main thing is to writefor the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lustthat imagines its haven like your hands at nightdreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.You are fasted now, light-headed, dange...”
“Fate goes ever as fate must.”
“More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney”
“That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.”
“To work, her dumb lunge says,is to move a certain mass...through a certain distance,is to pull your weight and feelexact and equal to it.Feel dragged upon. And buoyant.”
“Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro.”
“And a young prince must be prudent like that,giving freely while his father livesso that afterwards, in age when fighting startssteadfast companions will stand by himand hold the line.”
