"I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do. It appeals to the imagination from the start: those colours, green and yellow, create an atmosphere."
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Quoted in Waugh, Alex (1967) My Brother and Other Profiles
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J. Milton Hayes
1884 – 1940
John Milton Hayes (1884–1940) was an English actor and poet.
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