“I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans.”
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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.
Some say they see poetry in my paintings I see only science.
