Poetry Quote by Seamus Heaney — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job”

“It is always better”

“Let whoever can win glory before death.”

“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.”

“Since when," he asked,”

“The way we are living,”

“Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.”

“eat, baby.”

“And then all that has divided us will merge”

“Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems”

“Poetry emerging from a poet enters into the reader only when it comes within the readers’ 'sphere of intellect.”

“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love;”