Seamus Heaney Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Joy, Rewards

  "To set the darkness echoing". Interview with Dennis O'Driscoll, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.

• The main thing is to write for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust that imagines its haven like your hands at night dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast. You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous. Take off from here.

  Seamus Heaney

  Dream, Writing, Night

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Station Island”, p.93, Macmillan

• 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 Heaney

  Self, Joy, World

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “The Redress of Poetry”, p.5, Macmillan

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