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“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Burns. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- cd529fea65aecb0bb89d8b58bbd2c9a828b31b733372a5750cca77900efba2bc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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