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And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.

— Geoffrey Hill

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In memory of those things these words were born.

An achieved poem is always beautiful in its own way, though such a way will many times strike people as harsh and repellent.

I have learned one thing: not to look down
Too much upon the damned.

I wish I understood myself
more clearly or less well.

Primroses; salutations; the miry skull
of a half-eaten ram; vicious wounds in earth
opening. What seraphs are afoot.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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