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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five read more
Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
 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. 
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
 A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical 
impossibility.  
 A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical 
impossibility. 
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds
 Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
 Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
  Catullus read more 
 Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him,
 Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample,
  Catullus scarcely has a decent poem,
   I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example,
    Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn
     Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample;
      But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one
       Being with "Formosum Pastor Corydon." 
 "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. 
 Most joyful let the Poet be;
 It is through him that all men see.  
 Most joyful let the Poet be;
 It is through him that all men see.