“My life may be much happier to-morrow
Hunger and love that press against the body,
The two eternal needs we recognise,
Desires that so relentlessly pursue one,
May get me down or raise me to the skies
And make me a Don Bradman or Don Juan.”

—  Gavin Ewart

"Days of Contempt", line 4, from Poems and Songs (1939)

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English poet 1916–1995

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