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

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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