In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. Seamus Heaney Next Quote Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again. - Seamus Heaney Previous Quote A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups. - Seamus Heaney