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W. R. Rodgers Quotes

1909–1969 Northern Ireland

William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969), known as Bertie, and born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was probably best known as a poet, but was also a prose essayist, a book reviewer, a radio broadcaster and script writer, a lecturer and, latterly, a teacher, as well as a former Presbyterian minister.

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The record-keepers of record-breakers,
The lackers and onlookers of greatness,
Eunuch students of love and peeping Toms.

Awake! and Other Poems (1941)

The dead diplomat, inseparable
On his finger-end the skeleton-keys
Of compromise and ambiguity.
There too floated the drowned scholar, his hand
Holding his pat reference and apt tag,
Index and document, his subscription
To Authority.

Awake! and Other Poems (1941)

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