The Uses of Diversity: A book of essays

part in the applauding chorus of the cosmos. On the other hand, those

who have bad news to tell are much more explicit, and the poets whose object it is to depress the people take care that they do it. I will not write any more about those poets, because I do not profess to be impartial or even to be good-tempered on the subject. To my thinking, the oppression of the people is a ter...