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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Mini who’s who:

Seamus Heaney : Irish Poet
Born:  April 13, 1939
Died:  August 30, 2013