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Thomas Hardy on Poetry

1840–1928 England

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

The Hand of Ethelberta (1876)

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.

The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy ed. Michael Millgate (1984)

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