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Quotes by Seamus Heaney
- A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
- As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
- At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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