Seamus Heaney's Nobel Lecture, captured here in Crediting Poetry , is a powerful defense of poetry as and "the ship and the anchor and " of our spirit within an ocean of violent, divisive politics and and "world-sorrow. and " Beginning with the and "creaturely existence and " of his childhood in a thatched farmstead in rural County Derry, Heaney traces his path in and "the wideness of language. and " It is a way forged by to the and "burbles and squeaks and " of BBC and Radio Eireann from a wireless speaker, to the triple-rhyme in a line of Yeats', but also to the sound of gunfire in Ulster and the keening desolation of all the and "wounded spots on the face of the earth. and " Out of all these sounds Heaney discovers the necessity of poetic order - and "an order where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. and "It is poetry's ability to convey the forces of the marvelous and the murderous together, Heaney writes, that gives it and "at once a buoyancy and a holding, and " and persuades us of its and "truth to life. and " Heaney's lecture not only finds a way of crediting poetry and "without anxiety or apology, and " but it persuades us, eloquently and gracefully, of the and "rightness and " and and "thereness and " of our veritable human being.