"I have always thought of poems as stepping……" — Seamus Heaney

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own… - Seamus Heaney

"I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing."

— Seamus Heaney

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