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By Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
- Source
- Sunset Gun, 1928 · p. 50 (poem "Fair Weather")
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- Internet Archive (scan of Sunset Gun, New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928; copyright 1928)
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The last line of the first stanza of the poem "Fair Weather" in Sunset Gun (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928). It is spoken by the poem's speaker, who turns down a calm sea and asks for a wilder one. Published in the US in 1928, so in the public domain.