"I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing."
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The Observer, 19 April, 1998, p. 23
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Jenny Joseph
Jenny Joseph (7 May 1932 – 8 January 2018) was an English poet. Her poem Warning was identified as the UK's "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the BBC.
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