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The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Source: Thoughts in a Dry Season, 'Literature'
-- Gerald Brenan, (Apr 7 1894-1987), English writer, hispamist; He is best known for 'The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War.

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