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I drink to keep body and soul apart.
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
Age: 74 †
Born: 1939
Born: April 13
Died: 2013
Died: August 30
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In off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
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But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
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You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.
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The end of art is peace.
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If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.
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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
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The next move is always the test.
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Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.
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I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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