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.
Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.420, Macmillan
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