Word: nascitur
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...Poeta nascitur, non fit,"* say the poets who consider themselves naturals. But can one poet teach another how to write? In the current issue of Poetry, two successful teachers say: yes-sometimes...
...merely a case of scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof, and if he cannot attract notice in one way he can in another. No one would bear any ill-will to a man who snorted in chapel through ignorance, but if he continued to disgust...
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