poetry
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Kipling’s critics are quick to include him as one of the ‘fathers’ who ‘lied’ – echoing his short poem ‘Common Form’ – ‘If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied’. From ‘Kiplings War’ Kipling has long been viewed as a propagandist and supporter of war but that was perhaps merely a
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Go to that dark place and embrace it. I say, go to that dark place and rest your tortured head against the cold certainty that everything changes. All will be lost. No one escapes it. You will be abandoned, betrayed, lose everything. Life will turn on a dime. But nature is kind and will conjure
Philippa Lee 