The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole. - Seamus Heaney
" "The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
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About Seamus Heaney
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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