"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for."
"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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Source: Seamus Heaney (2014). “Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture”, p.17, Macmillan
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