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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2416
AUTHOR:Samuel Butler (1612–1680)
QUOTATION:And poets by their sufferings grow,— 1
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.
ATTRIBUTION:Fragments.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Julian and Maddalo. [back]
 

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