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I wasn__ reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A__.But this was different.I started to cry.(_)The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family__he first one was not my fault, but all adopted children blame themselves. The second failure was definitely my fault.I was confused about sex and sexuality, and upset about the straightforward practical problems of where to live, what to eat, and how to do my A levels.I had no one to help me, but the T.S. Eliot helped me.So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn__ be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language__nd that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers__ language powerful enough to say how it is.It isn__ a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Jeanette Winterson Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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I wasn__ reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A__.But this was different.I started to cry.(_)The unfamiliar and beautiful play made things bearable that day, and the things it made bearable were another failed family__he first one was not my fault, but all adopted children blame themselves. The second failure was definitely my fault.I was confused about sex and sexuality, and upset about the straightforward practical problems of where to live, what to eat, and how to do my A levels.I had no one to help me, but the T.S. Eliot helped me.So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn__ be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language__nd that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers__ language powerful enough to say how it is.It isn__ a hiding place. It is a finding place.
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Jeanette Winterson

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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