“If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
