“When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”

"The Poet & The City", p. 81
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)

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Anglo-American poet 1907–1973

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