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The Mighty Dead
Wild Nights
Read by Helen Mirren
The Mighty Dead
To My Dear and Living Husband
Read by Helen Mirren
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Kay Ryan
B. 1945
What poetry does is put more oxygen into the atmosphere. Poetry makes it easier to breathe. - Kay Ryan
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William Carlos Williams
B. 1883 D. 1963
Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it... - William Carlos Williams
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Samuel Menashe
B. 1925 D. 2011
O Many Named Beloved / Listen to my praise - 'O Many Named Beloved', Samuel Menashe
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Siegfried Sassoon
B. 1886 D. 1967
...O, but Everyone/Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done. - 'Everyone Sang', Siegfried Sassoon
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Kathleen Raine
B. 1908 D. 2003
Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')