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"It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time."

Philip Dunne, American Screenwriter

Time, England, Italy, Living

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"It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time."

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