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

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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. – 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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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again. – Lesley Garrett

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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I hope to be around past the 90s. I dont want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands. – Mariah Carey

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