for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let&#39;s not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

As humans we look at things and think about what we&#39;ve looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Thom Gunn

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