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I learned this group by
reading a poem, which

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is slightly more
complicated, a poem it's

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been rather anthologized.

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And this really introduces
a new influence I think,

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and that's the-- or two
new influences which

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I haven't introduced or very
little into my poetry before.

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One is of Beethoven Quartets,
so late Beethoven Quartets

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and the other which seems
rather oddly combined with it

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perhaps is of Russian
Revolutionary Movies.

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Well, I was very
influenced by photography

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and by those very poetic
films like Ten Days

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That Shook The World and
Earth and Potemkin and so on.

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And I think in the
last part of this poem

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you'll see some of
this idea, you'll now

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have heroic figures standing
against the sky, which

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is photographed
with a dark lens,

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and so the clouds very white
and the sky around the back

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of the clouds is very
dark, and the wind

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is blowing across the
grass that kind of thing.

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I think continually of
those who are truly great,

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who from the womb remember
the soul's history

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through corridors of
light, where the hours are

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some endless and singing

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Whose lovely ambition was
that their lips still touched

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with fire, should tell of
the spirit clothed from head

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to foot in song

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And who hoarded from
the spring branches,

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the desires falling across
their bodies like blossoms

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What is precious is never to
forget the essential delight

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of the blood drawn
from ageless springs,

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breaking through rocks in
worlds before our Earth

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Never to deny its pleasure
in the morning simple light

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nor its grave evening
demand for love

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Never to allow
gradually the traffic

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to smother with noise and fog,
the flowering of the spirit

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Near the snow, near the
sun, in the highest fields

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see how these names are
feted by the waving grass,

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and by the streamers
of white cloud,

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and whispers of wind
in the listening sky

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The names of those
who in their lives

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fought for life, who wore
their hearts the Fire Center

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Born of the sun they traveled
a short while towards the sun

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and left the vivid air
signed with their honor

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