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There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
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Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.
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In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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I drink to keep body and soul apart.
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
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But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.
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