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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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For me, poetry is a situation – a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but its differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. – Michael Cunningham

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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