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There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

Alan Watts

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Alan Watts
Age: 58 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 6
Died: 1973
Died: November 16
Anglican Priest
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Dramaturge
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Kent
England
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Nothing
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Adequately

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