
At lucky moments we seem on the brink
Of really saying what we think we think:
But, even then, an honest eye should wink.
(Auden, postscript to "The Cave of Making," 1964)
Gentle Sir Philip Sidney, thou knew'st what belong'd to a scholler; thou knew'st what pains, what toil, what travail conduct to perfection.
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