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Quote by Seamus Heaney
I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.
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The speaker values poetry in two ways: it has worth simply as poetry, and it also offers help. The sentence keeps those roles together without reducing poetry to a tool. Poetry matters for what it is and for the support or benefit it can provide.
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- NobelPrize.org — Seamus Heaney’s Nobel Lecture
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