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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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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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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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Poetry
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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. – Seamus Heaney

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positive
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Poetry
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And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads. – Marianne Moore

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Poetry

The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan

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Poetry

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. – W.B. Yeats

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Poetry

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. – Mary J. Blige

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I played professional level sports. When youre playing for money, its a whole other level. – Kurt Russell

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We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. – Robert Patrick

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famous