“Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.”
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I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
