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The Story of Rimini (1815)
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Poetry, in the most comprehensive application of the term, I take to be the flower of any kind of experience, rooted in truth, and issuing forth into beauty.
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The pretension is nothing; the performance every thing. A good apple is better than an insipid peach.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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Where the light woods go seaward from the town.
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The two divinest things this world has got,
A lovely woman in a rural spot!
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
October 19, 1784
Died:
August 28, 1859
(aged 74)
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