Quote by Seamus Heaney
Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to t

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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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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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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Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. – Diane Wakoski

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If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry. – John Drinkwater

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Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. – Theodore Sturgeon

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