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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naiveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. Henri Matisse		Friday Dec 12, 2025
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About John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire and Normanby

	John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire and Normanby
	(1648-1721) Essay on Poetry, 1682 - English political leader & poet, patron of Dryden, friend of Pope.

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Read Homer once and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need. And when I feigned an angry look, Alas, I loved you best. Theres no such thing in Nature, and youll draw A faultless monster which the world neer saw.

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