Alfred Doolittle

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“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The old chains
on her bosom
do not rise,
do not glow
when she breathes,
nor change colour.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)