Seamus Heaney: Work

Seamus Heaney was Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer. Explore interesting quotes on work.

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“God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”

Seamus Heaney book Death of a Naturalist

"Docker", line 10, from Death of a Naturalist.
Poetry Quotes, Death of a Naturalist

“The main thing is to write
for the joy of it. Cultivate a work-lust
that imagines its haven like your hands at night
dreaming the sun in the sunspot of a breast.
You are fasted now, light-headed, dangerous.
Take off from here.”

Seamus Heaney book Station Island

Source: Station Island

“The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.”