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" Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. "

Seamus Heaney

Solidarity

Judging

Poetry

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" You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality. "

" As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. "

" Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing. "

" Poetry, fiction as novels or short stories - these are autonomous as created by their authors. They should stand on their own, like pieces of furniture that should be judged as to their usefulness, elegance. "

" Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. "

" I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. "

" I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work. "

" If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. "

" The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. "

" It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. "

" Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. "

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

" Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. "

" Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. "

" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "

" But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. "

" Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art. "

" The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. "

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Poetry

Seen

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" One doesn't want one's identity coerced. "

Seamus Heaney

Want

Identity