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• A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
  -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love...
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• The Poet Whose Badness Saved His Life The most important poet in the seventeenth century was George Wither.
  Alexander Pope called him "wretched Wither" and Dryden said of his verse that "if they rhymed and rattled all was well"....
• The Rabbits The Cow Here is a verse about rabbits The cow is of the bovine ilk
  That doesn't mention their habits. One end is moo, the other, milk. -- Ogden Nash...
• A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.
  -- George Herbert (1593-1633) -- The Church Porch...
• The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything.
  Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands....
• Habits may be good or they may be bad. At first, they are like cobwebs.
  Later, they become cables. A snake may change his skin....
• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part ii...
• Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet. -- Lamartine