<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508580" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poor Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A man should write to please himself,'<br> He proudly said.<br>Well, see his poems on the shelf,<br> Dusty, unread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he came to my shop each day,<br> So peaked and cold,<br>I'd sneak one of his books away<br> And say 'twas sold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then by chance he looked below,<br> And saw a stack<br>Of his own work,--speechless with woe<br> He came not back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hate to think he took to drink,<br> And passed away;<br>I have not heard of him a word<br> Unto this day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A man must write to please himself,<br> Of all it's true;<br>But happy they who spurning pelf--<br> Please people too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508580" data-title="Poor Poet de Robert William Service" data-description="'A man should write to please himself,' He proudly said. Well, see his poems on the shelf, Dusty, unread. When he came to my shop each day, So peaked and cold, I'd sneak one of his books away And say 'twas sold. And then by chance he looked ..."></div> </div> </div>

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