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Accept the shout or silence of your peers
As if a fabled legacy or loss;
Their praiseand blame are but the winds which toss
Your seed into the winter of the years.
William Soutar
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What is this poetry? A mortal mind
Made visible; a caged bird?
Nay more: it is a spiritleft behind
Nailed by the piercing word.
William Soutar
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My life's purpose is to write poetry — but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.
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A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
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Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.
William Soutar
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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William Soutar
Born:
April 28, 1898
Died:
October 15, 1943
(aged 45)
Bio:
William Soutar was a Scottish poet and diarist, who wrote in both English and Braid Scots, and is known best for his epigrams.
Known for:
Diaries of a dying man
The Diary of a Dying Man
Into a room
Poems in Scots and English
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