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

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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. – Carl Sandburg

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When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Id always loved poetry and Id always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadnt thought of putting the two together until around that time. – Bruce Cockburn

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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. – Asghar Farhadi

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