“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.”
Source: Romeo and Juliet
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William Shakespeare699
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Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
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Gary Snyder (1930) American poet
I Went into the Maverick Bar, from No Nature; New and Selected Poems (1992)
