What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.Patrick Kavanagh
To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime's experience. In the world of poetic experience it is depth that counts, not width. A gap in a hedge, a smooth rock surfacing a narrow lane, a view of a woody meadow, the stream at the junction of four small fields - these are as much as a man can fully experience.
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You told me the plough was immortal!
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You flung a ditch on my vision
Of beauty, love and truth.
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Lost the long hours of pleasure
All the women that love young men.
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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