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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
T. S. EliotA temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American AuthorIt is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet
remain
lonesome.
T. S. Eliot

XXIX



When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself, and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd,

Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least;

Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,

Haply I think on thee,-- and then my state,

Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate,;

  For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings

  That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

 	--William Shakespeare