American Poet

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    I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)