The seat has an extract from a poem by Spanish poet Antonio Machado carved into it which reads: "Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking".

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She burst into laughter, she says, as she came across a poem that her brother John, as a youngster, had picked out and copied as a gift to their poetry-loving mom.

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For him, a good poem is the distillation of experience, and poetry comes into its own when life is being lived in extremis.

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