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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. --Albert Einstein

CXXIII

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyramids built up with newer might
To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;
They are but dressings of a former sight.
Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old;
And rather make them born to our desire
Than think that we before have heard them told.
Thy registers and thee I both defy,
Not wondering at the present nor the past,
For thy records and what we see doth lie,
Made more or less by thy continual haste.
  This I do vow and this shall ever be;
  I will be true despite thy scythe and thee.
 	--William Shakespeare

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If it be the wish of Him in whom all things flourish that my life continue for a few years, I hope to write of her (Beatrice) that which has never been written of any lady. -Dante on his inspiration for The Divine Comedy