The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
Seamus Heaney
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Be the necklace-fire of stars, The cauterizing lightning. Bewilder us with good.”
“All of us would like to have been born Infallible, but since we knew we weren't, It's better to attend to those who speak In honesty and good faith, and learn from them.”
“Nobody, Nobody can be sure they're always right. The ones who are fullest of themselves that way Are the emptiest vessels.”
“No windfall or good fortune comes to mortals That isn't paid for in the coin of pain.”
“You can't just pluck your honour off a bush You didn't plant.”
“The land of the living, sister, Is neither here nor there. We enter it and we leave it. The dead in the land of the dead Are the ones you'll be with longest.”
“I am not the target. I am the archer. My shafts are tipped with truth and they stick deep.”
“You can't, friend, have your palm greased and expect To get away clean. Everything comes out.”
“Worst is the man who has all the good advice And then because his nerve fails, fails to act In accordance with it, as a leader should. And equally to blame Is anyone who puts the personal Above the overall thing, puts friend Or family first.”
“Wise conduct is the key to happiness. Always rule by gods and reverence them. Those who overbear will be brought to grief. Fate will flail them on its winnowing floor And in due season teach them to be wise.”
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