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Quote by Douglas Dunn
A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to unde

A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn

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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

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