"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."

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One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise. It’s easy to become so mired in our likes or dislikes that we can no longer recall that person who once responded to poems—and to people—without any preconceived notions of what we wanted them to be.

— Christian Wiman