(Image source from: Nobel prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney bites dust})

"The soul exceeds its circumstances..." Little did the poet who wrote the lines thought how he would continue to live even after his death through these very poignant lines.

One of Ireland's greatest poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney breathed his last on Friday in a Dublin hospital. The poet was 74. He is survived by his wife, Marie, and children Christopher, Michael and Catherine.

Considered Ireland's greatest poet after W.B. Yeats, the poet has left behind a “half-century's body of work” that reflected his experience: the tart smells and effete beauty of Irish landscapes, the loss of loved ones and the nostalgia, and the heckled soul of his native Northern Ireland.

Also, one of the world's premier classicists, Seamus Heaney transliterated and elucidated ancient works of Athens and Rome for today's generation.

"A bear of a man with a signature mop of untamed silvery hair, he gave other writers and fans time, attention, advice – and left a legacy of one-on-one, life-changing moments encouraged by his self-deprecating, common-man touch", wrote The Huffington Post in an obituary to the dead poet.

Image Source: The Telegraph, BBC News

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