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The Function Of Poetry Is Religious Invocation Of The Muse; Its Use Is The Experience Of Mixed Exaltation And Horror That Her Presence Excites.

Every English Poet Should Master The Rules Of Grammar Before He Attempts To Bend Or Break Them.

Originally Marriage Meant The Sale Of A Woman By One Man To Another; Now Most Women Sell Themselves Though They Have No Intention Of Delivering The Goods Listed In The Bill Of Sale.

Mythology Is The Study Of Whatever Religious Or Heroic Legends Are So Foreign To A Student's Experience That He Cannot Believe Them To Be True. . . . Myth Has Two Main Functions. The First Is To Answer The Sort Of Awkward Questions That Children Ask, Such As: 'who Made The World? How Will It End? Who Was The First Man? Where Do Souls Go After Death?'. . . . The Second Function Of Myth Is To Justify An Existing Social System And Account For Traditional Rites And Customs.

As You Are Woman, So Be Lovely: As You Are Lovely, So Be Various, Merciful As Constant, Constant As Various, So Be Mine, As I Yours For Ever.