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Heredity

by Tony Harrison

Tony Harrison

How you became a poet's a mystery!
Wherever did you get your talent from?

I say: I had two uncles, Joe and Harry-
one was a stammerer, the other dumb.




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Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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