Writings of Seamus Heaney

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.

  • From The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney

“Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.”

  • Attributed to Seamus Heaney (paraphrasing Václav Havel)

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