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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.


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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.


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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.

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William Soutar

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:
  1. Diaries of a dying man
  2. The Diary of a Dying Man
  3. Into a room
  4. Poems in Scots and English

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