‘Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.’ - Seamus Heaney, Poet & Nobel Laureate. - ThreadSky

robertbohan.bsky.social • 12 days ago

‘Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.’ - Seamus Heaney, Poet & Nobel Laureate.

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admhortensia.bsky.social•12 days ago

Sometimes I struggle with these concepts and collapse them together. They are two separate things. Thank you for the reminder.

roisindubh1.bsky.social•12 days ago

Love, love Seamus Heaney
👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼💙

robertbohan.bsky.social•12 days ago

I’ve been thinking about hope & consolation, a lot, recently. Heaney was one of the greatest Irish poets but he was also a chronicler of the Troubles*. He understood the darkness & horrors of civic strife. His every writing was deeply considered & apt.

robertbohan.bsky.social•12 days ago

*Heres a relatively straightforward account of the Troubles. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-troubles-of-northern-ireland-history

wolverb33n.bsky.social•12 days ago

Thank you for sharing this. It's something I've been intending to educate myself more on as of late. My mom talked about it very, very briefly when I was a kid, but that was around the year of the Belfast agreement.