Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. (John Drinkwater)

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

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