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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker. 12 Feb. 1902.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910, translated by Jane B. Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Saunders, George. Convocation speech for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. 11 May 2013, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

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De Unamuno, Miguel. Del Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida [The Tragic Sense of Life]. Sociedad anónima Editorial, 1913, ch. 5.

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Johnson, Samuel. "Idler." Universal Chronicle, 11 Nov. 1758, no. 30.

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Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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Kafka, Franz. "To Oscar Pollack, January 27, 1904." Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

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Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 2.

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Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 9, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 2.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.

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Strand, Mark. "Untelling the Hour." Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. University of Alabama Press, 1983. Originally an interview called "Untelling the Hour." Interviewed by Richard Jackson. The Poetry Miscellany, c. 1979.

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Thomson, James. Spring. London: Andrew Millar, 1728.

When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Les mamelles de Tirésias [The Breasts of Tiresias]. 1917, Paris, France.

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Silverstein, Shel. "Listen to the Mustn’ts." Where the Sidewalk Ends. Harper & Row, 1974, I. 1.

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864, I. 1.

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 5, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Charles R. Johnson

Middle Passage

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Johnson, Charles R. Middle Passage. Atheneum Publishers, 1990.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fifth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 5 Apr. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 18.

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Rossetti, Christina. "A Christmas Carol." Scribner's Monthly, 1872, I. 1.

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Rossetti, Christina. "A Christmas Carol." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

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Forster, E.M. "What I Believe." Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in the Nation, 16 July 1938.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013.

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne, 1789, ch. 1.

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Dover Publications, 2007, ch. 1.