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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.
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 b... (more Seamus Heaney quotes)
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