#ak

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#citizens #make #note #our #positive

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#i #making #poetry #possible

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#became #big #climb #closer #deliberate

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#assisted #beautiful #development #different #greater

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#duty #earthly #father #happen #highest

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from. ↗

— Thomas Hearns

#came #god #i #i came #knew

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#going #had #jihad #just #know

For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#came #i #kidnapped #me

I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#big mistake #crime #figured #finally #i

Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#act #again #also #care #difficult