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Jon Silkin

Jon Silkin (December 2, 1930–November 25, 1997) was a British poet.

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    The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times—the cat not even once.
    —W.E. Farbstein. Quoted in “Hundkeit,” Mondo Canine, ed. Jon Winokur, Dutton (1991)

    Something has ceased to come along with me.
    Something like a person: something very like one.
    And there was no nobility in it
    Or anything like that.
    —Jon Silkin (b. 1930)