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

“I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.”

“Postscript”

“History says, Don’t hope”

“I rhyme”

“All I know is a door into the dark”

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

“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem”

“The heart can think of no devotion”

“The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.”

“Poetry, if it has too many layers, should at least lead readers to the openings of the caves the poet built with words and then let them explore on their own! If it does not happen, the travellers might return even without knocking at all!”

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

“There is no name for what life should be, except”