As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Quote by Seamus Heaney

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A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of...

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of...

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of...

Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of...

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the...

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the...

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within...

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within...

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

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

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that...

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that...

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb...

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb...

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the...

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the...

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which...

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which...