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

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

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

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Poetry
[I]t is not health, it is convalescence that is poetical. Just as certain plants only yield all their fragrance to the fingers that crush them, so it is only in a state of suffering that certain affections utter all their poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. – John Fowles

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Poetry

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poets language at that point in history, and so its even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

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Deep experience is never peaceful. – Henry James

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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun

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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day. – R. Kelly

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Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didnt fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldnt find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. – Eric Clapton

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Music