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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
Best
Live
Writing
Things
Poetry
World
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Write
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I have need to busy my heart with quietude.
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Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate.
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I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.
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Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour, And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping, With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power, To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping.
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But only agony, and that has ending And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.
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And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish
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The worst of slaves is he whom passion rules.
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In your arms was still delight, Quiet as a street at night And thoughts of you, I do remember, Were green leaves in a darkened chamber, Were dark clouds in a moonless sky.
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There's little comfort in the wise
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Hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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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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Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond But is there anything Beyond?
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Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near-- Not here the appointed End, not here! But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime!
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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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Down the blue night the unending columns press In noiseless tumult, break and wave and flow
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But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
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Youth is stranger than fiction.
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Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
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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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The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.
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