A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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Let us honour if we can; The vertical man; Though we value none; But the horizontal one.
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If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
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Our researchers into Public Opinion are content; That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace when there was war, he went.
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
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