[New-Poetry] What has poetry taught you?

[David Graham]

Dennis O'Driscoll:    What has poetry taught you?

Seamus Heaney:    That there's such a thing as truth and it can be  
told -- slant; that subjectivity is not to be theorised away and is  
worth defending; that poetry itself has virtue, in the first sense of  
possessing a quality of moral excellence and in the sense also of  
possessing inherent strength of reason by its sheer made-upness, its  
integratis, consonatia and claritas.

from *Stepping Stones:  Interviews With Seamus Heaney*, by Dennis  
O'Driscoll.  Farrar, Straus, 2008.


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