Tuesday, April 20, 2021

A trick of verse

Perhaps I can express more fully in verse
ideas and emotions which run counter to
the inert crystallized opinion – hard as a rock –
which the vast body of men have vested interests in supporting. . . .
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved,
the Inquisition might have let him alone.

                         Thomas Hardy
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