But I feel I can't read your poem impartially while your charges against me, as expressed in a letter I have somewhere but won't quote, remain unsubstantiated.

BBC: A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word

Or to the God behind the God who moves the God who moves the player who moves the pieces and begins the round of dust and time and sleep and dying in your poem, Jorge.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

That's when I remember the famous Rupert Brooke poem about the nobility of dying for your country and the "corner of a foreign field that will be forever England".

BBC: News

For most school children, being able to recite a poem from memory is a short cut to wandering lonely as a cloud during lunch times and having your gym kit chucked on top of the bus shelter.

BBC: Reciting poetry: Stanza and deliver