For years a secret shame destroyed my peace—
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice.
But then I had a thought that brought me hope—
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.


'Take Heart, Illiterates' (1966)

Justin Richardson Quotes

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace— I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope— Neither had...

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace— I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope— Neither had...

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace— I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope— Neither had...

For years a secret shame destroyed my peace— I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNeice. But then I had a thought that brought me hope— Neither had...