As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus HeaneyA public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus HeaneyThe dotted line my father's ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won't wash away.
Seamus HeaneyIn off the moors, down through the mist beams, god-cursed Grendel came greedily loping.
Seamus Heaney