Athens Academy

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    “Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air
    Falling towers
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    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “...I have come to make distinctions between what I call the academy and literature, the moral equivalents of church and God. The academy may lie, but literature tries to tell the truth.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)