"Debate doesnâ€™t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. Thatâ€™s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities."

-- Seamus Heaney

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