The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes... ✨ Cake…

W. Somerset Maugham
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes... ✨ Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 184), 1930.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes... ✨ Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard by W. Somerset Maugham, (p. 184), 1930.

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