<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459522" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Not Quite Knowing Kathleen Raine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now she's died, too...<br>and mankind's selfish howl rings out -<br>She should have died hereafter...<br>why didn't you tell us you were going to die...? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She left us with a poem to her lover; <br>their parting once almost as chewed-over <br>as the Ted and Sylvia show...<br>was it her fault, was it his, <br>did she ruin his talent? <br>Did he ruin hers? <br>Did she ruin her own? ..<br>and on and on</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then the obituaries the next day -<br>half a page of glorious, immortal things one never knew<br>about that small, dignified, humble lady<br>to whom I was introduced<br>with the wrong reference, <br>so that we shook hands weakly<br>over a void of silent incomprehension...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">she who had entered the room<br>with my my my book in her hand...<br>and made me too feel immortal...<br>until we were introduced...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now I wish there were some love-bank of futility<br>where we could say<br>put this uncounted love to her account - no, no name please</div><div style="margin:10px 0">because we would have loved you more, we think, <br>if we had known<br>what we know now</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it's pathetic isn't it</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459522" data-title="On Not Quite Knowing Kathleen Raine de Michael Shepherd" data-description="And now she's died, too... and mankind's selfish howl rings out - She should have died hereafter... why didn't you tell us you were going to die...? She left us with a poem to her lover; their parting once almost as chewed-over as the Ted and ..."></div> </div> </div>

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