“When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“This is the thing that I was born to do.”
— Samuel Daniel, book Musophilus
Musophilus (1599), Stanza 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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V, 1
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