Grave Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image “History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Grave History Hope Says Side
“History says, Don't hope/On this side of the grave/But then, once in a lifetime/The longest-for tidal wave of justice can rise up/And hope and… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
For people like you, there is no such thing as an early grave. You wanted to gut my dreams 'til I was empty, And… — Bring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery. — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and… — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
“Some people die and you realize that the only mark they left on earth are the tomb stones under which they lie. The impacts… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become… — Leo Ornstein Copy Share Image
We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. — John James Ingalls Copy Share Image
The queen and I always got on well, still do; I uphold everything Her Majesty represents, has given up her life for. It's her… — Sarah Ferguson Copy Share Image
![“One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too…” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fb/seamus-heaney-1711_being-responsible_one-of-the-very-first-poems-i-wrote-was_181491.jpg)
![“Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e6/seamus-heaney-1711_anything-can-happen_anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally_181651.jpg)
