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Seamus Heaney Quotes

Seamus Heaney quotes about poetry

Irish Poet April 13, 1939

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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. Seamus Heaney
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is..."
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Seamus Heaney
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. Seamus Heaney
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole. Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up..."
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as..."
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney quote: "I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. Seamus Heaney

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