It Is Difficult At Times To Repress The Thought That History Is About As Instructive As An Abattoir; That Tacitus Was Right And That Peace Is Merely The Desolation Left Behind After The Decisive Operations Of Merciless Power.

-Seamus Heaney

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It Is Difficult At Times

Seamus Heaney

It Is Difficult At Times To Repress The Thought That History Is About As Instructive As An Abattoir; That Tacitus Was Right And That Peace Is Merely The Desolation Left Behind After The Decisive Operations Of Merciless Power.

Topic

Desolation

Operations

Difficult

I Have Begun To Think Of Life As A Series Of Ripples Widening Out From An Original Center.

Thinking

Ripple

Originals