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Time is of the essence,
The crowd and players
Are the same age always,
But the man in the stand,
Is older every season.


Rolfe Humphries

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Rolfe Humphries

Rolfe Humphries

Born: November 20, 1894
Died: April 22, 1969 (aged 74)
Bio: George Rolfe Humphries was a poet, translator, and teacher.
Known for:
  1. Poets, poetics, and politics
  2. The summer landscape (1944)
  3. Forbid thy ravens (1947)
  4. Coat on a stick (1969)

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