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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Christopher Morley

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
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Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
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Hunger
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Citizens
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