"Is your cucumber bitter?"
Hugo, Hunt, Radnóti, Zimmer, Whitman, Aurelius
Richard Hugo:
Erica Hunt:
Miklós Radnóti (trans. Steven Polgar, Stephen Berg, S.J. Marks):
Paul Zimmer:
Walt Whitman:
Marcus Aurelius:
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