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Sometimes I think Johnson´s Lives of the English Poets is all I need to be happy.

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

A veces pienso que 'La vida de los poetas' de Johnson es todo lo que necesito para ser feliz.

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Descanso de caminantes, 2001.

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Poetry

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