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I have wished you something None of the others would....

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The Old FoolsWhat do they think has happened, the old fools,To make them like this ? Do they somehow supposeIt's more grown-up when your mouth hangs o...more

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I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

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Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

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Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.

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Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.

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Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock....

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So many things I had thought forgottenReturn to my mind with stranger pain:Like letters that arrive addressed to someoneWho left the house so many yea...more

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Uncontradicting solitudeSupports me on its giant palm;And like a sea-anemoneOr simple snail, there cautiouslyUnfolds, emerges, what I am.

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Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:The sun-comprehending glass,And beyond it, the deep blue air, that showsNothing, and is nowhere, a...more

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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

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When I throw back my head and howlPeople (women mostly) sayBut you've always done what you want, You always get your way- A perfectly vile and foulInv...more

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In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

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I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

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Morning, noon & bloody night,Seven sodding days a week,I slave at filthy WORK, that mightBe done by any book-drunk freak.This goes on until I kick the...more