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In memory of those things these words were born.

— Geoffrey Hill

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And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.

An achieved poem is always beautiful in its own way, though such a way will many times strike people as harsh and repellent.

I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.

I wish I understood myself
more clearly or less well.

Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
of a half-eaten ram; vicious wounds in earth
opening. What seraphs are afoot.

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To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.

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In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.

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