Seamus Heaney Quotes

This temperamental disposition towards an art that was earnest and devoted to things as they are was corroborated by the experience of having been born and brought up in Northern Ireland and of having lived with that place even though I have lived out of it for the past quarter of a century.

- Seamus Heaney

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Temperamental | Disposition | Earnest | Devoted | Corroborated |

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