That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.


The Bodley Head G.K. Chesterton (ed. Vintage, 1985)


That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.