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Quote by Seamus Heaney
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. – Seamus Heaney

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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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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. – Seamus Heaney

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Hope
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The older Ive got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry. – Reynolds Price

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A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. – Robert Morgan

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Poetry

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry. – Andrew Motion

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Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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