Seamus Heaney Quotes about Art

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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Seamus Heaney

Art, Inner Life, Ifs

The end of art is peace.

Seamus Heaney

Art, Ends, Art Is

Seamus Heaney (2014). “Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978”, p.112, Macmillan

Poetry is language in orbit.

Seamus Heaney

Art, Poetry, Orbit

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

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.

Seamus Heaney

Art, Self Esteem, Achievement

The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm.

Seamus Heaney

Inspirational, Art, Fundamentals

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

Seamus Heaney

Senior, Art, Way

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

Seamus Heaney

Art, Thinking, Deep Relationship

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Seamus Heaney Quotes about Art

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