The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
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Yea, is not even Apollo, with hair and harpstring of gold, A bitter God to follow, a beautiful God to behold.Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glory to Man in the highest! For Man is the master of things.
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A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His days work and his nights work are undone And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.
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For a day and a night and a morrow, That his strength might endure for a span; With travail and heavy sorrow, The holy spirit of man.
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