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1 " Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. "
― Camille Paglia , Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
2 " In the long revolt against inherited forms that has by now become the narrative of 20th-century poetry in English, no poet was more flamboyant or more recognizable in his iconoclasm than Cummings. "
