John Leonard Quotes

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Poem Title: Sad Heart - If the poem will not crystallise for you - A night when neither the Northern Nor the Southern Crowns could be seen - It may be that the dashes in the document Ascribed to...

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Poem Title: Returning Here - Returning here after twenty years, I look about to see what has changed. I should have looked to see what has not - The place, myself, together. What can I say?...

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Poem Title: Look at the Day - If the breeze never touches you Then you’ll wait a long time, Perhaps most of your long life. If you’re too busy or angry It’s no use - the living day,...

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Poem Title: Earth Star - It dwelt ages-long in the earth, A part of earth itself, a questing, Spreading net of filaments. One rainy spring it burst out Scattering its meaning through the world:...

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Poem Title: Today - Today was broken: last year’s leaves, Dappled with this year’s new sun, And a wind to cancel the warmth And blow the leaves far away. There was nothing to grasp at -...

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Poem Title: A Circle - A circle traced in the air By the hand, yet the hand does not Make the circle, nor does the strength Of the arm, or the mind’s guidance. The circle springs from a...

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Poem Title: Nel Mezzo - And so I approach the quiet centre, Rest from the busyness of life - Its patterns, activity and facts, which, Then and now, seem to me not A life, rather a kind of...

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Poem Title: Contre Jaccottet - He says that poets might as well Be knitting - that poetry means nothing, Since the bare words on a page Are not reality, are not a life. But we don’t live very...

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Poem Title: Honest Errors - These mistakes, so inexplicable, In matter of such simplicity, Have a purpose. They give it all away, confound it, Destroy the illusion of a selvedge, True...

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These ideas once had life, Were thoughts that people once Lived, breathed, had hope in. But now they are dead, No-one can truly think them - They must be reconstructed, revived. And the language...

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