"Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest."

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If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

— Aleister Crowley