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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Quotes

  • Illusion
    All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.
    Edgar Allan Poe