"Life Loves to change, wrote poet John Masefield, in the cobbled town of Ledbury, Herefordshire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's town too. ... I felt drunk on general coziness... thinking of Elizabeth, whose "father never spoke to her again," once she had a child (what was his problem?), and Masefield, who suffered intense seasickness yet wrote about going down to the sea as if it were his favorite act ... Life loves to change-but some of us want to stay."
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Naomi Shihab Nye Voices in the Air: Poems for Listeners (2018)
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John Masefield
John Edward Masefield, OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer; he was Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death.
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