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In poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring fro

In poetry and in eloquence the beautiful and grand must spring from the commonplace…. All that remains for us is to be new while repeating the old, and to be ourselves in becoming the echo of the whole world. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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