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We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage:
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why.

— James Elroy Flecker The Golden Journey to Samarkand (1913)

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The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

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Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea.

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