Werner Herzog (1942) German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director
Minnesota declaration (1999)
“Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,
And decorate the verse herself inspires:
This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,—
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.”
Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 839.
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