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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing...

Quote by Joseph Addison about genius, man

Type: Poet Quotes Category: Scottish Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1732 Year of Death: 1769 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: William Falconer Related Authors: Norman MacCaig Ian Hamilton Finlay Alexander Smith...

Quote by William Falconer about nation, poets, death

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, ...

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Quote by Thomas Otway about man

Music before all else and for that choose the irregular, ...

Music before all else and for that choose the irregular, which is vaguer and melts better into the air.

Quote by Paul Verlaine about music, air

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