Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.Commencement Address, University of North Carolina, 1996
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Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator, born on April 13, 1939, in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He is renowned for his profound and evocative poetry that explores themes of nature, identity, and the complexities of life in Ireland. Heaney received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995.
1939–2013·lived 74 years
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.Commencement Address, University of North Carolina, 1996
I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.Nobel Lecture, 1995
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