Memorial Day 1998
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Human beings suffer. They torture one another. They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured.
History says, Don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up. And hope and history rhyme.
Irish poet awarded 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
The October 8, 1995 Portland Oregonian reported that Seamus Heaney is often compared to William Butler Yeats and Robert Frost. Heaney has written of using a pen as a spade to dig through all life's layers and shows the power of language to enlighten as well as divide. He claims the only answer to the constant waves of death is to see the possibilities of life. The power of a poet of hard-headed hope. |
Seamus Heaney