Seamus Heaney's Quote - In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a r

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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a r

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

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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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I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible. – Seamus Heaney

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry always runs away from you – its very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it. – Abbas Kiarostami

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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Poetry is, first and last, language – the rest is filler. – Mark Strand

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I just have faith. Its just there. Its not any big deal. – Ernie Harwell

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Before I travelled my road I was my road. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal. – Samuel Hopkins Adams

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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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