Thought for the Day

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.

~ Seamus Heaney

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Quoted from Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991 (Reprint Ed.)

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Irish Poet, Playwright; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1995

Biography at The Nobel Prize