Seamus Heaney Quotes

Tweets of Seamus Heaney's poetry: randomly selected based on mood and available text by @the_mcquade

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

How we crept before we walked!

[Prof. Christina Pagel - @chrischirp.bsky.social @chrischirp]

An NHS doctor sent me this message last night after the press conference - the NHS is in *real* trouble.

The problem is that hospital staff can face the sack if they talk to media without going through formal press office.

Just cos they can't speak, don't think it's not bad!

[𝚁𝚘𝚡𝚢 🌮🐀🍅 @FireyRoxy]

First rule of public appearance.
Never stand infront of a blue or green screen.

[Derek Turner @DerekTurner1964]

My review of Patrick Radden Keefe's magisterial 'Say Nothing' https://t.co/aKauMR76O9 @praddenkeefe @HeaneyCentre @HeaneyQuotes @TheBrazenHead1

[Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺 @the_mcquade]

The Patient Assassin, by Anita Anand #BookReview https://t.co/qyPUYGc6dE via @wordpressdotcom

[Seamus Heaney Poetry Bot @heaneybot]

How culpable was he
That last night when he broke
Our tribe’s complicity?

[Dr Helen Shaw 💙 @HelenFShaw]

Lunchtime walk - the old mulberry tree in the walled garden at Brockwell Park

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod.

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen

[Seamus Heaney Poetry Bot @heaneybot]

Or a crack run up a gable,
She began to speak.
‘I think our very form is bound to change.
Dogs in a siege. Saurian relapses. Pismires.

[Amanda Ferguson @AmandaFBelfast]

One more time for the people at the back...

[Seamus Heaney @HeaneyDaily]

All throwing shapes, every one of them
Convinced he’s in the right, all of them glad
To repeat themselves and their every last mistake,
No matter what.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit.

Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period.

[Brian Doogan @doogan_brian]

... History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave
But then once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge ...
- #seamusheaney @HeaneyQuotes
@joebiden #bidenharris

[Bobby McDonagh @BobbyMcDonagh1]

Stop press. Dry cleaners in Westminster area announce significant delays as Brexiteer Ministers and MPs send in their coats to have them turned @campbellclaret @chrisgreybrexit @JoeBiden @mrjamesob

[Aidan McQuade 🇪🇺 @the_mcquade]

2020 has just got a bit less shite.

[Siobhan McEvoy @smacevoy]

I love that @Channel4News posted this first before mentioning the Biden win. #MVPHarris #AmericaDecides2020 #USElectionResults2020 #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris

[Seamus Heaney Quotes @HeaneyQuotes]

@JoeBiden