Contrary Motion

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“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“... The festival-colored brightness
That is their motion ...”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)