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Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowment, but for qualities which might make the happiness of the rudest handicraftsman as well as that of the ideal craftsman of the spirit? Because, probably, at his highest elevation, the poet needs no human intercourse; but he finds it dreary to descend, and be a stranger.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
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The House of the Seven Gables The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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