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The Complete Poems (1969)
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Her face is closed as a nut,
closed as a careful snail
or a thousand-year-old seed.
Elizabeth Bishop
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J. B. Priestley
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Born:
February 8, 1911
Died:
October 6, 1979
(aged 68)
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