"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."

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"Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child."

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"We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born."

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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

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"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."

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