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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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Marriage
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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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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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Poetry
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Poetry
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Poetry is reverie on paper. – Terri Guillemets, “Quiet time with my soul,” 1998

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Poetry

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. – Robert Creeley

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Poetry

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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Poetry

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. – Georges Bernanos

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America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas. – John Burton Brimer

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America

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

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Swimming

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family. – Mario Batali

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Family