There were absences in my life which were a comfort, then there was a presence that ruined me.
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There were absences in my life which were a comfort, then there was a presence that ruined me.
“Yes, every poet is a fool:
By demonstration Ned can show it:
Happy, could Ned’s inverted rule
Prove every fool to be a poet.”
Matthew Prior | Epigram after the French of Scévole de Sainte-Marthe