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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Augustus William Hare
Poetry, Done, Poet
Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.271

Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.

Augustus William Hare
Philosophy, Poetry, Week
Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.14

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

Augustus William Hare
Sheep, White, Poetry
Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.243

The poet sees things as they look. Is this having a faculty the less? or a sense the more?

Augustus William Hare
Poetry, Looks, Poet
Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.278

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