Seamus Heaney's Quote - The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous

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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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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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. – 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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Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Deep feeling doesnt make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help. – Thom Gunn

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Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart. – Cheryl Hines

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My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. – Dylan Walsh

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