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[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
[P]oets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science. – Sigmund Freud, quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations by Alan L. Mackay

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