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Men Quotes by John Drinkwater
- And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.
- Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
- For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all…
- Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality…
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