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5116208 | There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather .. | Susanna Kearsley | ||
4d7d3ec | For so must all things excellent begin. --Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene | Susanna Kearsley |