Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

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    Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. To the one party man’s nature is like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards him like a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
    —Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883–1917)

    And he whose soul is flat—the sky
    Will cave in on him by and by.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    ... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar in habits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.
    —Frances Wright (1795–1852)

    He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
    To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)