Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don't have that secret confession, you don't have a poem - don't even have a story. Don't have a writer. (Ted Hughes)

Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don't have that secret confession, you don't have a poem - don't even have a story. Don't have a writer.

Ted Hughes

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