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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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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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I dont like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were. – Anne Stevenson

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint. – Oscar Wilde

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In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. – Andrew Motion

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