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    London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    Feed me!
    —Charles Griffith (b. 1930)

    The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)