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"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
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"Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing."

"Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence."
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"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."

"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."
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