Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

Seamus Heaney
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More Quotes By Seamus Heaney
  1. 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.

  2. History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

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

  4. All I know is a door into the dark

  5. 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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