"Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible; without its amenities the world would be a bear-garden."

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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.

— May Sarton