263 Quotes by Seamus Heaney

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    Only the very stupid or the very deprived can any longer help knowing that the documents of civilization have been written in blood and tears, blood and tears no less real for being very remote.

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    Don’t be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport’s green.

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    Which would be better, what sticks or what falls through? Or does the choice itself create the value?

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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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