24 Quotes by Seamus Heaney about Poetry
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
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History says, Don’t hopeOn this side of the grave,But then, once in a lifetimeThe longed-for tidal waveOf justice can rise up,And hope and history rhyme
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It is always betterto avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.For every one of us, living in this worldmeans waiting for our end. Let whoever canwin glory before death. When a warrior is gone,that will be his best and only bulwark.
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All I know is a door into the dark
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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
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The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.
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Since when," he asked,"Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?
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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.
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I rhymeTo see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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