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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the posit
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note"

- Seamus Heaney

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Ireland Flag This quote is written / told by Seamus Heaney somewhere between April 13, 1939 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from Ireland. The author also have 23 other quotes.

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