Seamus Heaney Quote

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not only a surprising variation played upon the world, but a re-tuning of the world itself.

Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) - ISBN: 9781466855700