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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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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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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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Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. – Elia Kazan

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I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poets personality. – Mark Strand

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I love writing poetry because poetry can be anything you want it to be — just like daydreaming. There are no rules except those in your heart and your own pen. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats. – J. Courtney Sullivan

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The truth is an ambition which is beyond us. – Peter Ustinov

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I dont want to discredit peoples individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. Thats acting. – Kristen Stewart

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