John Barrington Wain è stato uno scrittore britannico.
Docente alla Oxford University dal 1973 al 1978 ed esponente degli Angry Young Men, fu autore di celebri romanzi quali Giù con la vita , Un suicidio da non sprecare , Il cielo più piccolo e della raccolta Poesie .
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“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”
Talk on BBC Radio, 13 January 1976
Quoted in "The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations", J M & M J Cohen (1996) p. 389 ISBN 0-14-051165-2
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
As given in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988) p. 301
“The lesson is that dying men must groan;
And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear.”
Poem Don't let's spoil it all, I thought that we were going to be such good friends.
