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Simply Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets…
- But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me…
- A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
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