“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.” IfsWayShouldMeanSelfCountryHomeRememberPoliticalOpportunityLanguageUnderstandingCuttingMissingEssentialsElementsDiversityRegardOneselfMutualDesirableImaginativeAttainmentRealisationBetter FutureCultural DiversitySelf UnderstandingEnhancementMutual Understanding Author:Seamus Heaney
“Poetry is language in orbit.” ArtPoetryLanguagePoetry IsOrbit Book:Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001 Source: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001
“Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.” LanguageSecureImpulseSensationsBolts Book:Selected Poems 1988-2013 Source: Selected Poems 1988-2013
“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.” WorldWellsSelfJoyLanguageProcessLosesRepresentationInventiveness Book:The Redress of Poetry Source: The Redress of Poetry
