“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”
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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
