Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book Quotes
Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
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“Just as a consummate cook will prepare a most delicate repast out of the most poor materials, so will the modern poet concoct us a most popular poem from the weakest emotions, and the most tiresome platitudes. The only difference is, that the cook would prefer good materials if he could get them, whilst the modern poet will take the bad from choice.”
― Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
― Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
“Poetry as practised by the latest masters, is the art of expressing what is too foolish, too profane, or too indecent to be expressed in any other way.”
― Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
― Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
“Students at the University now lose a class for not being familiar with opinions, which but twenty years ago they would have been expelled for dreaming of.”
― Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
― Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book
