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No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.

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Seamus Heaney

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

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Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

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Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

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No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

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I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

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