W. H. Davies — a remark

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“What surprises me as much as anything else in life is that the more we read books and talk, the farther we get away from the truth.”

A provocative defence of experience over second-hand knowledge · Autobiography, Later Days

About W. H. Davies

W. H. Davies

3 July 1871–26 September 1940

William Henry Davies, known throughout his writing life as W. H. Davies, was born on 3 July 1871 at 16 Portland Street in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, and died on 26 September 1940 in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire. He remains one of the most unusual figures in twentieth-century British literature: a poet of birds…

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