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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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When I originally started writing, I expected that probably very few people would read my poetry because in those days people didn't read poetry much anyway.
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Some certified nut
Will try to tell you it's poetry,
(It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense)
But watch out or he'll start with some
New notion or other....
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And we may be led, then, upward through more
Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.
John Ashbery
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
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Born:
July 28, 1927
Died:
September 3, 2017
(aged 90)
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