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“ Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. ”

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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

~ Mary Stewart

The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.

~ Mary Stewart

Used every man according to his capacity.

~ Mary Stewart

At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.

~ Mary Stewart