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The aim of military training is not just to prepare men for battle but to make them long for it.

These wars have been so great, they are forgotten Like the Egyptian dynasts. My confrere In whose th...

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Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out.Summers in your absence are as dark as a room.I ha...

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The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

People Live Here: Selected Poems 1948-1983

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Louis Simpson

Poet

Born: 1923-03-27

Died: 2012-09-18

Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (March 27, 1923 – September 14, 2012) was a Jamaican poet. He won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work At The End Of The Open Road.More