James Gordon Bennett

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    She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society where none intrudes
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but nature more,
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    I want to feel the surging
    Of my sad people’s soul
    Hidden by a minstrel-smile.
    —Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902–1981)