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If it be the wish of Him in whom all things flourish that my life continue for a few years, I hope to
write of her (Beatrice) that which has never been written of any lady. -Dante on his inspiration for The
Divine ComedyGod is subtle but he is not malicious. --Albert Einstein

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Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.
T. S. Eliot