“I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.”
Life magazine (4 January 1963) attributed variant: I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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British poet 1887–1964Related quotes
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