English Poets

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    I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
    Norman Douglas (1868–1952)

    Can you remember? when we thought
    the poets taught how to live?
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)