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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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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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Im not a great poetry fan. – Rupert Everett

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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. – Allen Tate

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You dont have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. – John Ciardi

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But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. – Peter Davison

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