Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one 'Sordello.'
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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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