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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460989" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just 22 miles of water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘To understand all<br>is to forgive all ‘ –<br>that’s one French saying <br>that doesn’t seem to have<br>crossed the few miles of <br>‘The English Channel’, or<br>the Straits of Dover or<br>‘The Sleeve’ or the<br>‘Passage of Calais’ or<br>however the French translates –<br>with the Normans; so</div><div style="margin:10px 0">perhaps they left it behind<br>at the Conquest along with<br>Armagnac and crepes and<br>their blonde mistresses<br>and never went back for it</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like I wonder if that blunt<br>English saying, <br>‘Those who can, do; <br>those who can’t, teach; and<br>those who can’t teach, <br>become critics…’<br>ever made it across La Manche<br>to that civilised nation where<br>critics, teachers, and the mind<br>are held in such respect; but</div><div style="margin:10px 0">suppose we equate football <br>and poetry here: <br>football supporters know their<br>playing days are over, if<br>they ever happened anyway; <br>they aren’t equipped to teach<br>except their sons, for some<br>happy time; and so they<br>hold to their precious love of<br>the beautiful game<br>by criticising the team, <br>the manager, and especially<br>the ref. Shoot the ref. So</div><div style="margin:10px 0">maybe it’s because <br>you, and you know who you are, <br>felt you couldn’t be<br>the great poet which you so wanted<br>to be, and found you<br>couldn’t teach, that<br>because you truly, deeply<br>love poetry and all<br>it stands for, and need<br>to preserve that love, you<br>criticise poetry so savagely here<br>in England, and <br>are hated for it; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">strange isn’t it that<br>a few miles across the Channel<br>from aggressive England<br>you’d be feted, revered, honoured, <br>as staunch upholder in critical essays<br>of the ever-renewing greatness of<br>French literature…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ll settle for understanding all and<br>forgiving all</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>
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