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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous

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

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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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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry is its own medium its very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. – Story Musgrave

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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. – John C. Ransom

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I never think about poetry except when Im writing it. I mean my poetry. – Norman MacCaig

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