Famous Quotes | With sighs more lunar than...

With sighs more lunar than bronchial,
Howbeit eluding fallopian diagnosis,
She simpers into the tribal library and reads
That Keats died of tuberculosis . . .
- Allen Tate
Attribution: Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet, critic. “Bored to Choresis.”

Categories: Critic, Illness

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