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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.

Seamus Heaney
Matter, Facts, Unexpected
"In their own words: literary giants who died this year" by Jess Sutcliffe, www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2013.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.