Seamus Heaney

Quotes by Seamus Heaney

 

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

Seamus Heaney

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I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Seamus Heaney

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Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

Seamus Heaney

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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

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The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

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