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

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But that citizens perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. – Seamus Heaney

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Trust
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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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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. Its that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, thats what the poet does. – Allen Ginsberg

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. – Anne Stevenson

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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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I dont think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry. – Robert Morgan

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