Carolina QuotesHe thought he was a good poet but he was not. He thought books could tell him how to live but they couldn't. He was a serious but dazed reader. He read Dante and Shakespeare and Nietzsche and Freud. He read modern poetry and books on psychiatry. He had taken a degree in English, couldn't, decided to farm, bought a goat farm, managed a Confederate museum in a cave on his property, wrote poetry, went broke, became a golf pro.
Walker Percy Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Second Coming (1980)
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- 1980
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“He thought he was a good poet but he was not. He thought boo…” Walker Percy. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D18CE334FA. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d18ce334fa
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