![Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
[Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/verses-devoid-of-substance-melodious-trifles-lat-versus-inopes-rerum-nugaeq.jpg)
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My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
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