"Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence"

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No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same.

— Gregory Orr