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POETS BORN, NOT MADE.

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He did not think the poet could be made—that colleges could furnish feeling, capacity, genius. He gave his opinion of these manufactured minstrels:

"A set o' dull, conceited hashes,

Confuse their brains in college classes!

They gang in stirks, and come out asses,

Plain truth to speak;

An' syne they think to climb Parnassus

By dint o' Greek!"

"Gie me ane spark o' Nature's fire,

That's a' the learning I desire;

Then tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire

At pleugh or cart,

My Muse, though hamely in attire,

May touch the heart."

The Essential Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

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