“Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.”

—  Adolfo Bioy Casares

"A veces pienso que La vida de los poetas de Johnson es todo lo que necesito para ser feliz."
Descanso de caminantes, 2001.

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