[net.poems] Why not?

reid (10/27/82)

I enjoy quotations--books of quotations, accidentally-discovered quotations,
and other epigrams and words of wit and wisdom.  I think this might be 
a good place to throw such things up for appreciation/discussion, since so
little else seems to appear here...

For instance:

"When a poet presents you with blank leaves, you should consider it
 no small present."
		-Martial

"Sir, I admit your general rule,
 That every poet is a fool;
 But you yourself may serve to show it,
 That every fool is not a poet."

                   -Pope

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Respectfully,
   Glenn Reid