“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
