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<p>Since my return I have been humming your <em>Bestiaire </em>as best I can and you have no idea, Francis Poulenc, how well you have conveyed both the nostalgia and the singsong quality of those admirable quatrains. / And what I find so moving is that you would think you were hearing the voice of Guillaume Apollinaire himself reciting those very lines. </p>
excerpt from 'Selected correspondence 1915-1963 / Francis Poulenc' pp. 42 (60 words)