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Brian Patten
Brian Patten
(7 February 1946 / Liverpool / England)
Brian Patten Quotes
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''When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.''
Brian Patten (b. 1946), British poet. "Prosepoem Towards a Definition of Itself."
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When You Wake Tomorrow
I will give you a poem when you wake tomorrow.
It will be a peaceful poem.
It won’t make you sad.
It won’t make you miserable.
It will simply be a poem to give you
When you wake tomorrow.
It was not written by myself alone.
I cannot lay claim to it.
