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Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old.

— William Maginn

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The safety of women consists in one circumstance: Men do not possess at the same time the knowledge of thirty-five and the blood of seventeen.

Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose.

Cold pig's face is one of the best things in the world for breakfast.

When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

T. S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent (1919)

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George Chapman Ovid's Banquet of Sense (1595)

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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