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No death outside my immediate family has left me more bereft. No death in my lifetime has hurt poets more.

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Is there a life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and sup,
We hug our little destiny again.


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And found myself thinking: if it were nowadays,
This is how Death would summon Everyman.


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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney
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Born: April 13, 1939
Died: August 30, 2013 (aged 74)
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