#tds2368 That shock of recognition

In a post on Poetry Exhaustion Anthony Wilson speaks to the “shock of recognition you’ve always been able to count on from a favourite unputdownable book of poems”. We imagine that anyone who loves poetry recognises that feeling; that feeling that makes one stop and reconsider old habits just as a result of reading one line of poetry…

We learnt about Francis Thompson recently on the Quote Garden Site.

If you would like to read the full poem, you can. Why not take yourself to quiet place and enjoy it?

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This Daily Stillness has been recycled from previously published ones:

• #tds1092 That shock of recognition (Jun 26, 2018)