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

“Postscript”

“History says, Don’t hope”

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

“Let whoever can win glory before death.”

“Is there life before death? That’s chalked up”

“Between my finger and my thumb”

“I said, “I just want to know you and then disappear.”

“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie,”

“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

“The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.”

“if you’re going to use the word ‘dream’ in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.”

“On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,”