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How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf
Age: 59 †
Born: 1882
Born: January 25
Died: 1941
Died: March 28
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What a lark! What a plunge!
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