“Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.”
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Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
