English Poets

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    The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.
    Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

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