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— Stephen Crane

I stood upon a high place,

And saw, below, many devils

Running, leaping,

And carousing in sin.

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DILIGENCE IS TO MAGIC AS PROGRESS IS TO FLIGHT

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Marianne Moore·1887–1972
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ith an elephant to ride upon—“with rings on her fingers and bellson her toes,” she shall outdistance calamity anywhere she goes.Speed is not in her mind inseparable from carpets. Locomotion arosein the shape of an elephant, she clambered up and choseto travel laboriously. So far as magic carpets are concerned, sheknows that although the semblance of speed may attach toscarecrowsof æsthetic procedure, the substance of it is embodied in such ofthose tough-grained animals as have outstripped man’s whim tosupposethem ephemera, and have earned that fruit of their ability to endureblows, which dubs them prosaic necessities—not curios.
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