There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died…

James Thurber
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ✨ Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).
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There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth. ✨ Quoted in Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks (eds) Selected Letters of James Thurber (1981).

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