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“No poet could write again,
the red-lily,
a girls laugh caught in a kiss;
it was his to pour in the vat
from which all poets dip and quaff,
for poets are brothers in this.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, he was a blockhead .... BOSWELL. Will you not allow, Sir, that he draws very natural pictures of human life? JOHNSON. Why, Sir, it is of very low life. Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
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