Quote #20

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

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  3. I long for rural and domestic scenes, for the warbling of Birds and the Prattle of my Children. Don't you think I am somewhat poetical this…
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  8. I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. ... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

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