French Poet

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“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

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