William Jay Smith Quotes

I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

William Jay Smith

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• I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.

  

  William Jay Smith
  • Children
  • Poet
  • Bard