An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
An anaesthetic is a poet-killer. — Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
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An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

— Lewis Hyde, Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking
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