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“... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)

“He that bulls the cow must keep the calf.”
—Sixteenth-century English proverb.

“Though language forms the preacher,
‘Tis “good works” make the man.”
—Eliza Cook (1818–1889)

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)