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I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.
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I think men and women who write poetry or write music or paint are finally responsible for what they do. They are entitled to praise for any success they achieve and they should not complain of just criticism.
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To say a poet is to be condemned or inaccessible because she invokes some fields of vision which we have difficulty in grasping; this seems to me a crass kind of bullying.
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She kept the siege. And every day
We watched her brooding over death
Like a strong bird above its prey.
The room filled with the kettle's breath.
Damp curtains glued against the pane
Sealed time away. Her body froze
As if to freeze us all, and chain
Creation to a stunned repose.
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For this creating to take place (as it does from time to time) words have to be accepted as heirs of their forebears, as we are of ours. And in each case, what exists is often only a bankrupt inheritance; or the hinterlands of the unspoken.
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September fattens on vines. Roses
flake from the wall. The smoke
of harmless fires drifts to my eyes.
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Geoffrey Hill
Born:
June 18, 1932
Died:
June 30, 2016
(aged 84)
Bio:
Sir Geoffrey William Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.
Known for:
Mercian hymns (1971)
Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 (2013)
The triumph of love (1998)
Speech! Speech! (2000)
The orchards of Syon (2002)
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