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“Mere dreams, mere dreams! Yet Homer had not sung
Had he not found it certain beyond dreams
That out of lifes own self-delight had sprung
The abounding glittering jet....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
Which is most barbarous is the middle age
Of man! it isI really scarce know what;
But when we hover between fool and sage,
And dont know justly what we would be at
A period something like a printed page,
Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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