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Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been given the poe?s blessing he asked for; and Landor when a child had been patted on the head by Dr Samuel Johnson; and Johnson when a child had been taken to London to be touched by Queen Anne for scrofula, the Kin?s evil; and Queen Anne when a child...
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About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentlema?s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.
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Dust in a cloud, blinding weather,Drums that rattle and roar!A mother and daughter stood togetherBeside their cottage door.'Mother, the heavens are bright like brass,The dust is shaken high,With labouring breath the soldiers pass,Their lips are cracked and dry.''Mother, I'll throw them apples down,I'll bring them pails of water.'The mother turned with an angry frownHolding back her daughter.'But mother, see, they faint with thirst,They march away to die,''Ah, sweet, had I but known at firstTheir throats are always dry.''There is no water can supply themIn western streams that flow,There is no fruit can satisfy themOn orchard trees that grow.''Once in my youth I gave, poor fool,A soldier apples and water,So may I die before you coolYour father's drouth, my daughter.
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Ther?s no money in poetry, but ther?s no poetry in money, either
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There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
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A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
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Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!
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You've read of sunsets rich as mine.
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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