I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.
Ted HughesAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: August 16, 1930
- Died: October 28, 1998
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