“Whatever happens, I shall never be alone,
I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.”

— Stephen Spender

'The Uncreating Chaos" — This poem was originally published in Poems (1933) where it reads: Whatever happens, I shall never be alone.
I shall always have a boy, a railway fare, or a revolution.
The Still Centre (1939)

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I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.”