There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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