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“And poets by their sufferings grow,-- As if there were no more to do, To make a poet excellent, But only want and discontent.”
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- Fragments.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 112bb716699f55a8413b7905668d497f8e3a48d3d2842bd0e9dd246b31bf991a
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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