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

Quote by Seamus Heaney

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

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

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the...

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the...

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of...

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of...

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which...

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which...

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the...

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the...

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of...

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of...

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that...

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that...

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within...

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within...

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb...

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb...