Best Quotes by Seamus Heaney (Top 10)

  1. If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
  2. 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.
  3. Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
  4. 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
  5. All I know is a door into the dark
  6. The end of art is peace.
  7. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
  8. Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
  9. The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.
  10. 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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