Quote on Poetry by Seamus Heaney

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"In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example."

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"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."