Quote by Simon Callow
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. Theres huge, visionary poetry in it. – Simon Callow

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My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown. – Simon Callow

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I dont practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation. – Simon Callow

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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly. – Anne Stevenson

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The poet… may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. – Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination, 1950

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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery

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I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry. – Jane Campion

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