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“For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.”

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

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We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.

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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

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That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

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