Seamus Heaney Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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 thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Impulse, Ifs

• I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Giving

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

• The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Empowerment

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

• 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

• The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful...

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Self, Forgetful

  "In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.

• Write whatever you like!

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing

• Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

  Seamus Heaney

  Home, Writing, Done

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

• Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Harvard, Spots

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

• The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties. And, of course, the John Harvard poem for the 350th anniversary Villanelle for an Anniversary.

  Seamus Heaney

  Writing, Alphabet, Harvard

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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