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Quote by Seamus Heaney
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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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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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
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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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Poetry
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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Poetry
[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

All the modern verse plays, theyre terrible theyre mostly about the poetry. Its more important that the play is first. – Denis Johnson

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Poetry

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Poetry

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My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has. – Carla Bruni

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