Seamus Heaney Ifs Quotations

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

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

If self is a location, so is love.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green.