“My poetry journey into the wilderness of language was a journey where each point of arrival turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination.”

— Seamus Heaney

From Nobel Prize for Literature speech 1995
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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer 1939–2013

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“My poetry journey into the wilderness of language was a journey where each point of arrival turned out to be a stepping stone rather than a destination.”

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