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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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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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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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I write poetry in order to live more fully. – Judith Rodriguez

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Poetry

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. – Frederick William Robertson

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What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed? – W.H. Auden

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldnt necessarily sit with them or why we would or whats cool or not cool. – Max Cannon

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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those dark, clustered houses encloses it – Charles Dickens

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