"The completely solitary self: that’s where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
― Seamus Heaney
Topic(s):
Amazing
More From Seamus Heaney
- "In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
- "I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."
- "The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost."
More In Amazing
- "In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved."― Charles E. Wilson
- "The thing is, I don’t believe in most of what’s done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that’s put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."― William Hurt
- "The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself."― Christy Turlington