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

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Hope
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. – Jean Cocteau

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Poetry

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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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

A sold poem loses half its meaning. – Terri Guillemets

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Poetry

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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. – Christopher Hampton

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Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. – Author unknown

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My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I dont even notice it any more. Its just my reality. – Ethan Hawke

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Lets create a legal system that can work. – Sam Brownback

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legal