Seamus Heaney

"Every ending contains a new beginning."

"The struggle is the meaning."

"What we give is what we keep."

"The voice of conscience is louder than the voice of power."

"We are all pilgrims in the land of language."

"The truth is always stranger than the story."

"What sustains hope is the vision of a better world."

"The poem speaks to the deepest part of ourselves."

"We are shaped by our choices and our loves."

"The greatest courage is to be true to yourself."

"Words are the bridge between souls."

"The natural world is the best teacher."

"What we create reflects what we value."

"The past is not past; it lives in us."

"To be alive is to be connected."

"The imagination is the only limit to what we can become."

"The main thing is to hold the main thing the main thing."

"We should be here. We should be now. We should acknowledge the present moment."

"Poetry is not a luxury, but a necessity of utterance."

"The end of art is peace."

"When you have the words, you don't need the thing itself anymore."

"I rhyme to see myself, to set the darkness echoing."

"Traditions are not inheritances; they are not things that come to you automatically."

"The real thing is said in the silences."

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

"The best thing one can do when one is lost is to eat."

"We live in a time of great change and uncertainty."

"The soul exceeds its circumstances."

"In the end, you have to choose one version of the truth over another."

"Words are not just mere sounds or signs, they are the actual manifestation of thought."