"Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right."
"One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him."
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Source: Clive James (2014). “Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014”, p.130, Pan Macmillan
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