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Heaney's Poetry Quotes

Poetry is more a threshold than a path Picture Quote #1

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home Picture Quote #1

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance Picture Quote #1

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it Picture Quote #1

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness Picture Quote #1

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Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it Picture Quote #1

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart Picture Quote #1

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry Picture Quote #1

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves Picture Quote #1

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go Picture Quote #1

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew Picture Quote #1

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In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself Picture Quote #1

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also Picture Quote #1

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups Picture Quote #1

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Poetry is more a threshold than a path (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) In the United States, in poetry workshops, it’s now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go. (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also (Heaney's Poetry Quotes) A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups (Heaney's Poetry Quotes)