Seamus Heaney's famous advice inscribed on his own gravestone

Seamus Heaney’s famous line to “walk on air against your better judgement” has been inscribed as an epitaph on his gravestone.

Seamus Heaney's famous advice inscribed on his own gravestone

Seamus Heaney’s famous line to “walk on air against your better judgement” has been inscribed as an epitaph on his gravestone.

The quote from his 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech was placed over the Irish poet’s grave in the North and earlier this week. It was included in a poem called The Gravel Walks.

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