What did Seamus Heaney mean by: I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing. - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland Copy
+ Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Keep Smiling, Miles, Rhythm, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind. Feraz Zeid, August 31, 2023December 26, 2023, Seamus Heaney, Mind, Sweet, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ I shall gain glory or die. Feraz Zeid, October 3, 2023December 26, 2023, Seamus Heaney, Die, Gains, Glory, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, God, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Forgiveness, Forgiving, Sea, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Risk, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Believe that a further shoreis reachable from here. Feraz Zeid, October 20, 2023December 26, 2023, Seamus Heaney, Believe, Forgiveness, Shore, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
+ Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. ~from the poem “Digging Feraz Zeid, January 10, 2024January 10, 2024, Seamus Heaney, Digging, Gun, Thumbs, 0 - Seamus Heaney Poet · Northern Ireland
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate. - Jean Vanier Philosopher and theologian
Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are. - Jennifer Lopez Singer · USA