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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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At home in Ireland, theres a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – Seamus Heaney

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Attitude
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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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Hope
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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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Poetry
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Poetry
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When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. – Nicholson Baker

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Poetry

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry

Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives. – Richard Eyre

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Poetry

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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Poetry

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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. – Henry Ward Beecher

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You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. – Tom Hopkins

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Money

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis

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In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. – Janet Jackson

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