How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. (Dorothy L. Sayers)

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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