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“The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made ‘em both a little bit naive.”
—E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981)

“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)