How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.William Collins
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere. . . . And it's that willingness to slow down and examine the mysterious bits of fluff in our lives that is the poet's interest.
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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
William Collins
If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.
William Collins
When Music, heavenly maid, was young,While yet in early Greece she sung.
William Collins
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
William Collins
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