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There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke
Age: 28 †
Born: 1887
Born: January 1
Died: 1915
Died: January 1
Poet
Rugby
Warwickshire
Rupert Chawner Brooke
Rupert Chaucer Brooke
Write
Three
Another
Best
Live
Writing
Things
Poetry
World
Read

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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
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All the little emptiness of love!
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Canada is a live country - live, but not, like the States, kicking.
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I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.
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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.
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Spend in pure converse our eternal day Think each in each, immediately wise Learn all we lacked before hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies And feel, who have laid our groping hands away And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
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Just now the lilac is in bloom All before my little room.
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It's all a terrible tragedy. And yet, in it's details, it's great fun. And - apart from the tragedy - I've never felt happier or better in my life than in those days in Belgium.
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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond?
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Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
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Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear. Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond? This life cannot be All, they swear, For how unpleasant, if it were! One may not doubt that, somehow, Good Shall come of Water and of Mud And, sure, the reverent eye must see A Purpose in Liquidity.
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour Safe though all safety's lost safe where men fall And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.
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And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.
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The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
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There's little comfort in the wise
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.. . . would I were In Grantchester, in Grantchester!
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Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
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