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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At home in Ireland, theres a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. – Seamus Heaney

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Attitude
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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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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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I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life – though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless. – Anne Stevenson

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One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. – Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. – Wilfred Owen

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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! – Lord Byron

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