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 "There's nothing great
 Nor small," has said a poet of our day,
  Whose voice will ring beyond read more 
 "There's nothing great
 Nor small," has said a poet of our day,
  Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve
   And not be thrown out by the matin's bell. 
 Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners 
of nature.  
 Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners 
of nature. 
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned read more
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
 Happy the poet who with ease can steer
 From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  [Lat., read more 
 Happy the poet who with ease can steer
 From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
  [Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
   Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.] 
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If read more
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
 Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls
 What triumphs shall be yours!
  For all are happy and rich and read more 
 Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls
 What triumphs shall be yours!
  For all are happy and rich and great
   In that City of By-and-by. 
 Sure there are poets which did never dream
 Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
  Of Helicon; read more 
 Sure there are poets which did never dream
 Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
  Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose
   Those made not poets, but the poets those. 
 Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
 Of poets triumphs over it.  
 Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
 Of poets triumphs over it.