French Poet

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    Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can’t even think straight.
    —Marilyn French (b. 1929)

    Let not the poet shed tears only for the public weal.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)