Poet William

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“The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“Now owing, I’m much disposed to fear,
To his terrible taste for tippling,
That highly respectable gondolier
Could never declare with a mind sincere
Which of the two was his offspring dear
And which the Royal stripling.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)