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

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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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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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But that citizens perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. – Seamus Heaney

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Trust
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