John Brown's Body
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“Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!”
“I admire the attention other writers can give to the world we're walking in.”
“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.”
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“Dreaming men are haunted men.”
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“Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.”