At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. - Seamus Heaney
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
- Seamus Heaney
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. - Seamus Heaney
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
The end of art is peace. - Seamus Heaney
The end of art is peace.
Walk on air against your better judgement. - Seamus Heaney
Walk on air against your better judgement.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. - Seamus Heaney
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. - Seamus Heaney
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. - Seamus Heaney
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and histo… - Seamus Heaney
History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and histo…
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