Thank you for this.

I've loved this Heaney poem for a long time (a college roommate introduced me to it, if I'm remembering correctly) and it is powerful, indeed. It's that last line that does it for me, really, as such a poignant expression of what it really does feel like in the transcendent moments when something, a random image or experience (or even poem), just utterly blindsides you with a feeling you can't even express.

eugenetapdance expressed the thought at one point that Adrian wants to save the world so much simply because it has beauty in it. I think this poem captures that marvelously.