The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry with him. (Robert Graves)

The child alone a poet is: Spring and Fairyland are his. Truth and Reason show but dim, And all's poetry with him.

Robert Graves

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