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I have to confess that I felt rather proud
of the simple device of my suffocating cloud.
The Prospero of poisons, the Faustus of the front,
bringing mental magic to modern armament.


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The ones we choose to love become our anchor
when the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.


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Every poem is a momentary defeat of pessimism.

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A language near extinction best preserves
the deepest grammar of our nothingness.


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Its blasphemy enabled man to break free from the Bible and Koran with their life-denying fundamentalists and hell fire such fanatics love to fan.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison

Born: April 30, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Tony Harrison is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University.
Known for:
  1. Collected Film Poetry (2007)
  2. The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (1990)
  3. The shadow of Hiroshima and other film/poems (1995)
  4. Square rounds (1992)

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