"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.“
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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
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"But that citizen's 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."
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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."
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"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
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"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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