Machine-made poetry does not sell very well. It is like machine-made pants for boys; it rips badly if you read it too fast, just…

“Machine-made poetry does not sell very well. It is like machine-made pants for boys; it rips badly if you read it too fast, just as the pants burst dreadfully when the boys who wear them climb too many fences or play leap-frog too hard.”

–“The Poetry Machine,” by Charles Barnard, written in 1827
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