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Reading poetry has the salutary effect on me of forcing me to read, and think, at a different pace than the rest of my life demands.

create a great penumbra of imagined difficulty and mystification throughout the whole poem

he delivered himself of a number of his favourite apophthegms

Like all misers he had a constant need to pit his wits against those of other men, to mulct them of their crowns by fair legal means

The poor helot went to the table