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He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime


Madame Dudevant

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Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie—
True Poems flee—
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GEORGE JEAN NATHAN She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.

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Can't look at him,
Can't be...
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