French Poet

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“But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a move in chess is like reaching for a salary check in its demand on the contemplative faculties.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)