The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses …

J. D. Salinger
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. ✨ Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.
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The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. ✨ Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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