To repeat what others have said requires education. To challenge it requires brains.

Mary Pettibone Poole

Mary Pettibone Poole is the author of book of Epigrams with title, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, published in 1938. The book is an aphorism and apothegms-based. Many of the Epigrams were devised by Mary during her experimentation with hallucinogenic substances. Some of the contexts were inspired by her personal life experiences, sexual encounters and struggle with Crohn’s disease. The book was banned in the USSR during 1940’s as it was considered to promote religious and sexual freedoms, incompatible with socialism.