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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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At home in Ireland, theres a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – 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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Some Marines made fun of the fact that I had done plays and studied poetry, but then I won the award for physical training. – David Hunt

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Prose talks and poetry sings. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. – Denis Diderot

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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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