Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

- Seamus Heaney

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

- Seamus Heaney

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

- Seamus Heaney

The end of art is peace.

- Seamus Heaney

Walk on air against your better judgement.

- Seamus Heaney

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.

- Seamus Heaney

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

- Seamus Heaney

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

- Seamus Heaney

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 histo…

- Seamus Heaney