Quote by Seamus Heaney
I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. - Seamus Hean

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. – 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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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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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

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. – John Cage

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but its not. – Kenneth Koch

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I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. – Shelby Foote

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