Numbers 33 and 43
By far the most famous poems from this collection, with one of the most famous opening lines in the English language, are numbers 33 and 43:
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“The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes.... It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
—Claude Lévi-Strauss (b. 1908)