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

Other quotes by Seamus Heaney

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. – Seamus Heaney

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Marriage
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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 completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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Poetry
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order – poetry = the best words in the best order. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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Poetry

Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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Poetry

What is poetry which does not save nations or people? – Czeslaw Milosz

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Poetry

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Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – Lord Acton

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power

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Confidence

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in their way. – William Blake

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Trees

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. – Richard M. Nixon

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Politics