Poetry
“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.” John Ashbery, born July 28th in Rochester, New York (1927)
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July 28th is Also the Birth Date of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844) a highly regarded poet and clergyman, who made extensive use of alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia giving rise to suggestions that he said things like “Sitting, Seriously over my Cereal”.
