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She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper—and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their hearts no further.
She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood on to paper—and this is the release that all writers, even the feeblest, seek for as men seek for love; and, having found it, they doze off happily into dreams and trouble their hearts no further.
Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
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- Dorothy L. Sayers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1925 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1893 to 1957; Wikidata Q106740, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106740 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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