“"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."”

—  George Meredith

Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 16.

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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