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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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Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. – Seamus Heaney

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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – 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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I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine

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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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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of ones geographic landscape, sometimes out of ones cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins. – Diane Wakoski

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. – Thomas Berger

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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. – Franz Grillparzer

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The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. – E. L. Doctorow

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