It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out … - Lisa Kleypas

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Poetry does so many different things, it's difficult to say anything definitive about its role, which of course varies from culture to culture. It can range from being stories of the tribe to the private lyric, to being as W. H. Auden said "the clear expression of mixed feelings" to nonsense verse.

Lisa Kleypas

It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

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