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I don’t really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn’t create them out of nothing. I owe them to my relations with other people.

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But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.
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As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.
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