If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Seamus Heaney

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History says, Don't hope/On this side of the grave/But then, once in a lifetime/The longest-for tidal wave of justice can rise up/And hope and history rhyme./So hope for a great sea change/On the far side of revenge/Believe in miracles....

Seamus Heaney


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

Seamus Heaney

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History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave,
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme

Seamus Heaney

Tags: poetry hope



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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Seamus Heaney


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Behaviour that's admired
is the path to power among people everywhere.

Seamus Heaney


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To work, her dumb lunge says,
is to move a certain mass
...through a certain distance,
is to pull your weight and feel
exact and equal to it.
Feel dragged upon. And buoyant.

Seamus Heaney

Tags: writing-life



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All I know is a door into the dark

Seamus Heaney

Tags: poetry darkness



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Once off the bush
The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair
That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.

-Blackberry picking

Seamus Heaney


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Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Seamus Heaney

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