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by qohen 5417 days ago
> Good old Larkin! Mmm...no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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Thanks for pointing that out :-) The reference and the post reminded me of Larkin's two poems, but maybe I didn't phrase the mental hyperlink clearly.

But more importantly, thanks for at least checking the reference out in the parent rather than giving it a downvote, as some here are apt to do.

I guess some think that any poetry relevance would be irrelevant in HN. To those I would reply:

  It is difficult

  to get the news from poems

		yet men die miserably every day

				for lack

  of what is found there.
(from Asphodel, http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15541).