Seamus Heaney Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

• Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

  Seamus Heaney

  Language, Impulse, Secure

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.27, 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

• Poetry is language in orbit.

  Seamus Heaney

  Art, Poetry, Orbit

  Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber

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