F. Sionil Jose Quotes

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

F. Sionil Jose

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• I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Music
  • Want
  • Listening