“It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack”
'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower
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American poet 1883–1963Related quotes

“It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth.”
[408247, October 1927, Listerian Oration: 1927 (delivered at the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, Toronto, June 18, 1927), Canadian Medical Association Journal, 17, 10 Pt 2, 1255–1263, 20316567, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC408247/] quote from p. 1261; This oration sponsored by the Lister Club of the Canadian Medical Association should not be confused with the Lister Oration sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Part 1: "The Creative Mind", §9 ( p. 20 http://books.google.com/books?id=TeHXAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+re-make+nature+by+the+act+of+discovery+in+the+poem+or+in+the+theorem+And+the+great+poem+and+the+deep+theorem+are+new+to+every+reader+and+yet+are+his+own+experience+because+he+himself+re-creates+them%22&pg=PA20#v=onepage)
Science and Human Values (1956, 1965)

"To An Ungentle Critic"
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon”
Source: Daughter of the Blood

“Nobody dies from the lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from.”
“Tomorrow'll be a new day. Which is really the same miserable fucking day all over again.”
Part I, Ch.2 - p.9 [Page numbers per the Picador 2018 UK paperback.]
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

“After wars peace, after peace, another war. Every day men are born and others die.”
All Men are Mortal (1946)