Irish - Critic | May 3, 1843 - April 4, 1913
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Edward Dowden
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Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.
WithoutVillainsTragedies
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
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