"But if a stranger in the train asks……" — Wystan Hugh Auden

"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 what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry."

— Wystan Hugh Auden

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