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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.
Seamus Heaney
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"My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God."
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My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God. — Seamus Heaney

About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney was a Poet from Ireland (1939–2013).

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This quote is attributed to Seamus Heaney, a Poet from Ireland.
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Seamus Heaney lived from 1939 – 2013.
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