My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.
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O memory, where is now my youth,Who used to say that life was truth?
Thomas Hardy
I need not go Through sleet and snow To where I know She waits for me She will tarry there Till I find it fair, And have time to spare From company.
Thomas Hardy
Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parson's damn.
Thomas Hardy
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Thomas Hardy
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
Thomas Hardy
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