"If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked."

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...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

— Austin Farrer