Poets Follies

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“Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)