“Is there life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,
We hug our little destiny again.”

—  Seamus Heaney

"Whatever You Say, Say Nothing", line 57, from North (1975).
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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer 1939–2013

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