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“The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...”
—June Jordan (b. 1936)
“Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)