“Don't ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still!”

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

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Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

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