Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.John Betjeman
for love I could not speak,
It left me winded, wilting, weak,
And held in brown arms strong and bare
And wound with flaming ropes of hair.
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Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another-
Let us hold hands and look.
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I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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