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Quote by Michael Cunningham
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with frie

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but its differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. – Michael Cunningham

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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