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“After the leaves have fallen, we return
To a plain sense of things. It is as if
We had come to an end of the imagination,
Inanimate in an inert savoir.”
― Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.”
― W. H. Auden, The Prolific And The Devourer