Diminished Intervals

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“If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, sons of the same soil, at intervals of three centuries were, in a political sense, the levers of Archimedes. Each in turn was an embodied idea finding its fulcrum in the interests of man.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)