If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.
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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.
I chose poetry. Actually, poetry chose me.
Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
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