I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.
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“My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.”
“I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it.”