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"An achieved poem is always beautiful in its own way, though such a way will many times strike people as harsh and repellent."
Geoffrey HillThe years will not — Geoffrey Hill
"The years will not answer for what they have done, that much is certain. There is no shaking them, we might have foreseen this but refused."
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Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL was an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation and was called the "greatest living poet in the English language."
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"Self-astonishment is achieved when, by some process I cant fathom, common words are moved, or move themselves, into clusters of meaning so intense that they seem to stand up from the page, three-dimensional almost."
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"I wish I understood myself more clearly or less well."
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"We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other."
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"I think art has a right—not an obligation—to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic."
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"September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes."
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