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Seamus Heaney

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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

— Seamus Heaneyattitude

"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

— Seamus Heaneyhope

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

— Seamus Heaneymarriage

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."

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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

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"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."

-Seamus Heaney

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

-Seamus Heaney

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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

-Seamus Heaney

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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."

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"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."

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"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."

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"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."

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"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

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"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."

-Seamus Heaney

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"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."

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