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Born: 1922-08-09
Profession: Poet
Nation: English
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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Tags: Children, May, Simple

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Tags: Life, Living, Practice

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

Tags: Hands, Kids, Yourself

They say eyes clear with age.

Tags: Age, Clear, Eyes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Tags: Wordsworth

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

Tags: China, Mind, Seeing

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Tags: Anywhere, Happens

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

Tags: Sleep, Understand, Wife

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

Tags: Done, Life, Love

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Tags: Death

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Tags: Popularity, Unhappy, Writing

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Tags: Off, Put, Young
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