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For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.

— Michael Drayton

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Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort’s a cripple and comes ever slow.

The Barons' Wars (1603)

The mind is free, whate’er afflict the man,
A King’s a King, do Fortune what she can.

The Barons' Wars (1603)

That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.

Crave the tuneful nightingale to help you with her lay,
The ousel and the throstlecock, chief music of our May.

The Shepherd’s Garland (1593)

You brave heroic minds
Worthy your country’s name,
That honour still pursue;
Go and subdue!

To the Virginian Voyage (1619)

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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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