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01Undated

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Seamus Heaney / quote

02Undated

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

Seamus Heaney / quote

03Undated

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Seamus Heaney / quote

04Undated

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.

Seamus Heaney / quote

05Undated

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Seamus Heaney / quote

06Undated

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

Seamus Heaney / quote

07Undated

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

Seamus Heaney / quote

08Undated

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

Seamus Heaney / quote

09Undated

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Seamus Heaney / quote