Seamus Heaney Stored Quotations

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.