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Seamus Heaney: Finding your voice.

Meg Maguire • Mar 11, 2024

“Finding a voice means that you can get your own feelings into your own words and that your words have the feel of you about them.” – ‘Seamus Heaney, Feelings into words’.


When Seamus Heaney dropped this wisdom bomb about words and feelings, poets clapped, and writers nodded sagely. For me, as a visual artist – I have no god damm idea. I just love the quote.


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Seamus Heaney: Finding your voice.

“Between my finger and my thumb, the squat pen rests, snug as a gun”
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