[New-Poetry] What has poetry taught you?

[TheOldMole]

I would have thought so, but I went with what I had.

Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Shouldn't it be "integritas" (and "consonantia")?
>
> Odd to find an Irish poet misquoting Joyce, and equally odd that 
> Heaney misses the irony of Joyce's giving the formulation to the 
> then-still-naive Stephen Deadalus, and apparently takes it with 
> complete seriousness.
>
> Robin
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
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>
>> "Mr. Heaney, pray tell, what is
>> Poetry?" "It's integratis."
>>
>> "Please sir, Mr. Heaney, whaddya
>> Telling me?" "It's consonatia."
>>
>> "Consonatia?" "Claritas."
>> "Mr. Heaney -- kiss my ass."
>>
>>
>> David Graham wrote:
>>> 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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