Longfellow on Nostr: Larkin understood something awkward and true: that poems are often the things we say ...
Larkin understood something awkward and true: that poems are often the things we say after the room has gone quiet and one honest thought has finally dared clear its throat. There is a particular English genius for melancholy without self-pity, and he had it in spades. #poetry #nostr
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