In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. H… - Thomas Sturge Moore

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In my opinion Mr. Moore is a greater poet than Mr. Yeats. He has lived obscurely, and has not displayed Mr. Yeats's talent for self-dramatization; for these reasons and others he has never become a public figure or a popular writer.

Thomas Sturge Moore

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Thomas Sturge Moore (4 March 1870 – 18 July 1944) was an English poet, art-historian, dramatist and wood-engraver.

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For milkmaids and queens and gipsy-princesses
Dream and kiss blindfold or starve upon guesses.

Then, cleaving the grass, gazelles appear
(The gentler dolphins of kindlier waves)
With sensitive heads alert of ear;
Frail crowds that a delicate hearing saves.

Break free, my soul, good manners are thy tomb!

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