Best Quotes by Seamus Heaney (Top 10)
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
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Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
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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
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All I know is a door into the dark
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The end of art is peace.
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Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
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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.
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More Seamus Heaney Quotes
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
Seamus Heaney