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Writer and poet · American · 1857–1945
American writer and poet (1857–1945)
“You can't have genius without patience.”
“Every new truth begins in a shocking heresy.”
“Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.”
“A pint can't hold a quart-if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”
“One must desire something to be alive: perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.”
“A sneer is like a flame it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes but it leaves a bitter scar.”