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I have my troubles and I shall always have them
But I should rather live with you for ever
Than exchange my troubles for a changeless kingdom.
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Poetry's another word
For losing everything
Except purity of heart.
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Bring me back to the dark school – to the dark school of childhood:
To where tiny is tiny, and massive is massive.
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Some of us made it
To the forest edge, but many of us did not
Make it, although their unborn children did—
Such as you whom the camp commandant branded
Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. Jesus, break his fall:
There—but for the clutch of luck—go we all.
Paul Durcan
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
William Winwood Reade
Paul Durcan
Born:
October 16, 1944
Died:
May 17, 2025
(aged 80)
Bio:
Paul Durcan was a contemporary Irish poet.
Known for:
The Berlin Wall Café (1985)
The Laughter of Mothers (2007)
The Days of Surprise (2015)
Snail in My Prime, A (1993)
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