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

“Between my finger and my thumb”

“History says, Don’t hope”

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”

“There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.”

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

“Postscript”

“She was not for everyone but she was for me.”

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”

“We never come out untouched from the spell of beauty. While we break away from the commonplace, upscaling and veering from the trodden path, it challenges the ordinary. On the broken pieces of the humdrum of our lives, beauty conjures up poetry and infinity.( "Absence of beauty was like hell")”

“Sully suffers from a stutter,”

“And then I feel the sun itself”

“The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...”