We take in everybody--peer, poet, or what not.

To say that this man shall not enter because he is this or that or the other thing would result in our ultimately becoming a class organization, which, as Confucius himself says, we are not and must not be.

If we put out the poet to please the sage, we'll soon have to put out the sage to please the fool, and so on.

We'll keep it up, once the precedent is established, until finally it will become a class club entirely--a Plumbers' Club, for instance--and how absurd that would be in Hades! No, gentlemen, it can't be done.

The poets must and shall be preserved." "What's the objection to class clubs, anyhow ?" asked Cassius.