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 O brave poets, keep back nothing;
 Nor mix falsehood with the whole!
  Look up Godward! speak the read more 
 O brave poets, keep back nothing;
 Nor mix falsehood with the whole!
  Look up Godward! speak the truth in
   Worthy song from earnest soul!
    Hold, in high poetic duty,
     Truest Truth the fairest Beauty. 
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal
 Singing and rejoicing,
 As aye since time began,
  The dying earth's last poet
   Shall read more 
 Singing and rejoicing,
 As aye since time began,
  The dying earth's last poet
   Shall be the earth's last man. 
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
 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. 
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
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.
 "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. 
 A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical 
impossibility.  
 A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical 
impossibility.