“Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.” WayFactsRememberMemoriesFundamentalsForgotten Author:Seamus Heaney
“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
“Best to say that once a poem is finished I trust it to make its way, and I trust readers will find their way to it and through it, if the thing has got itself rightly expressed.” IfsWayReaderFinished Author:Seamus Heaney
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.” IfsWayChance Author:Seamus Heaney
“Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art” WayArtFiguresCommittedDecadesSeniorVocationExemplary Author:Seamus Heaney
“The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.” WayHas BeensOur Lives Book:Field Work: Poems Source: Field Work: Poems
