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Seamus Heaney

"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."

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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."

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"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

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"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."

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"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

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"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

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"From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be."

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"Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence."

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"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."

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"The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."

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