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A slight relax of air. All is not dead.

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Never to walk from the station's lamps and laurels Carrying my father's lean old leather case...

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Though living is a dreadful thing And a dreadful thing is it...

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Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave...

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Joy has no cause: Though cut to pieces with a knife,...

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Everyone works in a different way, but does it matter where it comes from as long as the end result is something that works for the poet and for the audience or reader?

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The one thing all good poets have in common is that they read and appreciate a wide range of poetry, even if they don't agree about what it is that makes or inspires a good poem.

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In any field, the thinking and innovation which establishes a new paradigm is likely to come from outside the establishment.

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The emphasis on performance as one of the main opportunities for new poets to get noticed, especially the popularity of "open mic" sessions, has led to writers being encouraged to produce poems that reveal themselves at first reading. It has also led to the quality of performance being as important as the quality of writing in establishing a poet's credentials.

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Anyone who has written a poem easily and then wondered how it happened without apparently having had to struggle with it will incline towards the Wordsworthian view of poetry as some kind of divine magic or paranormal manifestation.

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At death, you break up: the bits that were you Start speeding away from each other for ever With no one to see.

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Oh, no one can deny That Arnold is less selfish than I. He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day.

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Surely, to think the lion's share Of happiness is found by couples sheer...

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Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me: "Why do you let me lie here wastefully?...

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What you did, any of us might. And saying so I see our difference:...

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A decent chap, a real good sort, Straight as a die, one of the best,...

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If hands could you free you, heart, Where would you fly?

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Long since had the dead Become untroubled In the light soil.

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The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful...

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Dying smokers sense Walking towards them through some dappled park...

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