“Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.”
Shirley Hazzard (1931–2016) Australian-Anglo-American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, non-fiction writer
“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”
The Name and Nature of Poetry
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