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I care not if you bridge the seas,
Or ride secure the cruel sky,
Or build consummate palaces
Of metal or of masonry.
But have you wine and music still,
And statues and a bright-eyed love,
And foolish thoughts of good and ill,
And prayers to them who sit above?

— James Elroy Flecker

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

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep.

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.

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

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A ship, an isle, a sickle moon —
With few but with how splendid stars.

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