Author Profile
Seamus Heaney
1939 – 2013 • Irish • Poet
102
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 102 quotesThe group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.— Seamus Heaney
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.— Seamus Heaney