Both the aphorism and the poem channel man's wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed. (Clifton Fadiman)

Both the aphorism and the poem channel man's wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.

Clifton Fadiman

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