James Lee Barrett (1929–1989) Tony Award winner, screenwriter and United States Marine
Shenandoah (1965)
“A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.”
BBC Interview with Cecil Day Lewis (13 September 1957); transcripts published in "It Takes a Hero to Make a Poem" in the Claremont Quarterly (Spring 1958) http://www.frostfriends.org/FFL/Periodicals/Interview-lewis.html <br class="br">1950s
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