Sir John Scott

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    There was a young lady called Gloria
    Who was had by Sir Gerald Du Maurier
    And then by six men
    And Sir Gerald again
    And the band of the Waldorf-Astoria.
    Anonymous.

    For beauties from worth arise
    Are like the grace of deities,
    —Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)

    Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)