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Quotes from What The Chairman Told Tom, from Odes II:6 — Basil Bunting

1900–1985 England

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Poetry? It's a hobby.
I run model trains.
Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
It's not work. You don't sweat.
Nobody pays for it.
You could advertise soap.

What The Chairman Told Tom, from Odes II:6 (1965)

Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find work

What The Chairman Told Tom, from Odes II:6 (1965)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Basil Bunting (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.