H. L. Mencken Quotes

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

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• I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Truth