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“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

“In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)