He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.
The writer is the visionary of his people... He anticipates, he warns.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.
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