Sir Thomas Robinson

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    “What should I say,
    Since faith is dead,
    And truth away
    From you is fled?
    Should I be led
    With doubleness?”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.”
    —Robin, Sir Day (b. 1915)

    “Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh ay so sore,
    Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
    and scape forth, since liberty is lever.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
    Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,
    Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)