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• Written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. -- Old Testament -- Jeremiah xvii, 1
• Yes, son, long ago, mail was written with pen and paper.
• No poems can please nor live long which are written by water-drinkers. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.)
• All that glitters is not gold" is from _Parabolae_, a book of poems written circa 1175 by Alanus de Insulis, a French monk
  _Non teneas aurum totum quod splendet ut aurum_ = "Do not hold everything gold that shines like gold"....
• The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrase
  "Let our thoughts be correct". -- Confuciu...
• All the simple programs have been written.
• For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these
  It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) _Maud Muller_ [1856]...
• Vice versa - poems about brothels?