A Quote by Alexander MacLaren
Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
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