“Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.”
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
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Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
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History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
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