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Quote by Seamus Heaney
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but

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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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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Poetry
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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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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. – Edward Young

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Poetry

If the author had said “Let us put on appropriate galoshes,” there could, of course, have been no poem. – Author Unknown

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Poetry

I was trained as an actress. But I wasnt a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up. – Jenny Eclair

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Poetry

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

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Poetry

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Im not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. – David Byrne

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There are only two races on this planet – the intelligent and the stupid. – John Fowles

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Intelligence

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a persons belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. – Arthur C. Brooks

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The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others. – Jose Saramago

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Attitude