I’ve been doing a little research, thinking about what book to get for the next poetry “conversation” in March. We’ll be discussing W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney, two very fine Irish poets. I already have the collected works of Yeats and thought I would see what’s available for Heaney. Anyway I found this great quote here:
Asked about the value of poetry in times of crisis, Heaney answered it is precisely at such moments that people realize they need more to live than economics: “If poetry and the arts do anything,” he said, “they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.”
