David Muse

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“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The Muse is mute when public men
Applaud a modern throne.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)