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Quote by Seamus Heaney
The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and i

The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. – Seamus Heaney

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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

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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. – Seamus Heaney

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He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech. – John Colville

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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