Books Quote by Seamus Heaney

“poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought”

— Michel Leiris

Poetry is a dangerous gift.

— Grace Aguilar

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

— Seamus Heaney

I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Writing poetry is a passion, ignited by thoughts, fueled by ink. A way to travel through another mind, where souvenirs of tears are tucked…

— Renee Dixon

The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility. The soul…

— Myrtle Reed

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to…

— Honore de Balzac

Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising…

— Joshua Reynolds

Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a…

— Henry Kirke White