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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and...more

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Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

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[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

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This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is ...more

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In my craft or sullen artExercised in the still nightWhen only the moon ragesAnd the lovers lie abedWith all their griefs in their arms,I labour by si...more

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And death shall have no dominion.Under the windings of the seaThey lying long shall not die windily;Twisting on racks when sinews give way,Strapped to...more

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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they wer...more

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I sang in my chains like the sea

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On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloodyBelly of the rich year and the big purse of my bodyI bitterly take to ta...more

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Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea.

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Come on up, boys-I'm dead.