Seamus Heaney

"A good line contains the whole world."

"What matters is not what we say but what we mean."

"The body is its own wisdom."

"We are shaped by what we read and who we love."

"The real thing is the presence of love."

"Art is the movement of love and justice."

"To know is to be responsible."

"The pen is mightier in truth than in falsehood."

"What is past is prologue."

"The kingdom is inside you and it is outside you."

"Words are the weights by which the world is measured."

"Every poem is a small act of resistance."

"The natural world is the true university."

"What we leave behind is what we are remembered for."

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."

"Beauty and terror are two sides of the same coin."

"Language is the house of being."

"The greatest thing is to make something beautiful from suffering."

"We are what we consistently do."

"The dream is more real than the waking."

"What we preserve, we honor."

"The voice is the signature of the soul."

"To create is to rebel against what is."

"The mind is its own place."

"What endures is what we build together."

"The poem is a journey, not a destination."

"Words heal and words wound."

"The real work is the work of presence."

"What we honor shapes what we become."

"The natural world speaks if we listen."