Bill Clinton Quotes Seamus Heaney. Former US president Bill Clinton has praised Seamus Heaney as our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives and a powerful voice for peace. Former US president Bill Clinton praised Seamus Heaney as our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives and a powerful voice for peace in a tribute last night.
The life of poetry at its most vital is a life of fear I think and panic that it will leave - Heaney describing his worry that his poetic inspiration might run out. History says Dont hope On the 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. This is our moment to make hope and history rhyme The former vice president also quoted the Bellaghy bard in March.
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Inflicted and endured. And Jeremy Corbyn pinched a line from Shelley for a campaign slogan For the many not the few. I was particularly moved by some words he had written which I quoted in my speeches to the Irish people. More than a brilliant artist Seamus was from the first day we met him a joy to be with and a warm.
