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But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

Rosamond Lehmann

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Rosamond Lehmann
Age: 89 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 3
Died: 1990
Died: March 12
Novelist
Playwright
Translator
Writer
Bourne End
Buckinghamshire
Preservation
Except
Lived
Poetry
Self
Important

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