2 Quotes by Seamus Deane

The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

But it is for us to distinguish, to see the difference between wrong done to us and equal wrong done by us; to know that our transient life, no matter how scarred, how broken, how miserable it may be, is also God’s miracle and gift; that we may try to improve it, but we may not destroy it.