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“The gloomy companions of a disturbed imagination, the melancholy madness of poetry without the inspiration.”
— Unattributed
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4f983213f23bca3ca71d2b24a9cedbcf870bfd115eac00a30b53c3914bb9d6ae
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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