Tao Te Ching

“poetry will take a great step, a decisive step, a step which, like the upheaval of an earthquake, will change the whole face of the intellectual world. It will set about doing as nature does, mingling in its creations—but without confounding them—darkness and light, the grotesque and the sublime; in other words, the body and the soul, the beast and the intellect; for the starting-point of religion is always the starting-point of poetry. All things are connected.”

— Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 CE
Literary pioneer, poet, and social justice provocateur
from Cromwell, 1827