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Seamus Heaney Quotes

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
Seamus Heaney

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Poet Quotes
Category:
Irish Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
April 13, 1939
Nationality:
Irish
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