"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for."
"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."
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Source: Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.415, Macmillan
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