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If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.
If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way.
Approximate author period: c. 1948 AD · modern
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- Ted Hughes
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- Approximate author period: c. 1948 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Ted Hughes: documented activity in 1948. Wikidata Q272194, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272194 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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