Bears Generally

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“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)