Quote by Seamus Heaney
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be

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

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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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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. – Seamus Heaney

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positive
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. Youre never as good as youd like to be. So theres always something to hope for. – Washington Irving

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Hope

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. – Oscar Wilde

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Hope

Fighting a war on terrorism is like fighting against crime. We can never hope to eradicate crime, so we shouldnt bother fighting it. – Craig Bruce

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Hope

I certainly hope Im not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause. – Christina Ricci

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Hope

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The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. – Robert Leighton

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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. – Zhuangzi

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Dreams

The science for which the United States is respected has nothing to do with the unscientific and baseless theory of evolution. – Ray Comfort

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Science

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. – Merle Shain

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Fear