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Poets are often secretive. A poet I knew—yet did not really know—surprised me by saying how much he liked to talk about his inside concerns. It was hard to talk with him at all, or to make him talk. He was usually silent, he walked around with the face of a dark secret.
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© 1969 Geoffrey Grigson
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Grigson, G. (1969). Thomas Hardy. In: A Choice of Thomas Hardy’s Poems. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00669-4_1
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