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

Other quotes by Seamus Heaney

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

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Poetry
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because were not getting those things from our communities or from each other. – Naomi Klein

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Poetry

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. – Laurie Lee

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Poetry

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

A sold poem loses half its meaning. – Terri Guillemets

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Poetry

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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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War

Kittens can happen to anyone. – Paul Gallico

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Cats

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. – George W. Bush

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Fear

All the worlds a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. – William Shakespeare

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Men