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The desire of a poet for his writings to be in print is as natural as a painter needs to exhibit his work in public.

— Vernon Scannell

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I'm no novelist.Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.

The best poetry of the second World war written by both British & American servicemen need not fear comparison with the generally more well highly regarded work of the 1914-18 poets.

The servicemen of the 1939 - 45 war could not be disillusioned because they held not illusions to start with, the most common mood found everywhere was one of dour resolution, skeptical, resigned.

The genuinely innovatory , the truly 'experiential' poetry is always firmly rooted in the achievement of the past.

In the excitement and rigours of the game or battle with words and shapes, self-interest is mislaid and objective truth may often be revealed.

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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