Thursday, April 22, 2010

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Things tell less and less:
The news impersonal
And from afar; no book
Worth wrenching off the shelf.
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Kingsley Amis
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Susan Williams 21 April 2016

Oh, what a disheartening glimpse of a person outliving a sense of adventure, a desire to see new places and hear new things, especially if it is old age stealing away the person's ability to enjoy by robbing the eyesight and the hearing and the ability to walk. I pray this is not necessarily true for every senior citizen.

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John Thomas Allen 25 July 2018

I find it kind of limited in scope of sensibility that every poem should be radiant with happiness, or, as poet Joseph Payne Brennan used to put it: Discouraging verse is proscribed.

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Susan Williams 02 August 2018

oh, do not mistake my comment for criticism. The topic is of course disheartening unless you are already heartless

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Susan Williams 02 August 2018

Those who read my comments or my writings would see that I do not limit the scope of literature but neither do I reject poetry that is radiant with happiness as being unworthy of being read or enjoyed.. Shakespeare penned both tragedies and comedies and I think most lovers of literature enjoy both.

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