Fontaine wrote: “If any young person should be so silly as to dream of writing poetry, it foretells poverty.”
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Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Poet · Heading 595; source line 3836 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If any young person should be so silly as to dream of writing poetry, it foretells poverty; and for one to dream of having a poetical lover or sweetheart, is a sign that they will fall in love with a fool.
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