“Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.” WellsArtSelfSeemsActionSelf EsteemEssentialsAchievementSurvivalBasesConvincedEsteemRhythmGuaranteesCredibilityGetting Started Author:Seamus Heaney
“A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.” WellsDifferentCommonPoetReaderAssumptionOrthodoxy Author:Seamus Heaney
“So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.” BelieveWellsSidesHealingSeaForgivenessMiracleRevengeCuresShoreI Forgive YouBelieve In MiraclesFar SideSea Change Author:Seamus Heaney
“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.” WellsTurnsOptimismConvictionRooted Author:Seamus Heaney
“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
