“I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.”
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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.