Quote by Seamus Heaney
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and o

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

Other quotes by Seamus Heaney

At home in Ireland, theres a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – Seamus Heaney

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Attitude
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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. – Seamus Heaney

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

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Hope
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. – Honore de Balzac

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Id like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us – a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. – Casey Kasum

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I dont know why theyre doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they dont understand the severity of the problem in this state. – Gray Davis

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Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. – Andre Maurois

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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised. – John C. Calhoun

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