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)