The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole. (Seamus Heaney)

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Seamus Heaney

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