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-- W. H. Auden, "Reading" (in The Dyer's Hand, 1962)
Compare with Kenneth Tynan's: "The critic knows the way but can't drive the car"
and Hemingway's "Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors."
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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