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Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it
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"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it"

- Seamus Heaney

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Ireland Flag This quote is written / told by Seamus Heaney somewhere between April 13, 1939 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from Ireland. The author also have 23 other quotes.

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