"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
― Seamus Heaney
Topic(s):
Experience
More From Seamus Heaney
- "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."
- "As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
- "In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
More In Experience
- "It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me."― Jodie Foster
- "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."― Sigmund Freud
- "You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."― Arthur Erickson