All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagratio

All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a chief of state. – W. H. Auden

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