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• Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness of mind.
  -- Thomas Macaulay...
• Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. Thomas Babington Macaulay
• If you are not the poet, perhaps you can be the poem.
• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.
• His imagination resembles the wings of an ostrich. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
• There was a young poet named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan.
  When told this was so, He said, "Yes, I know....
• Language is fossil poetry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Poe