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“لا تستغربوا إنْ رأيتموهم واقفين لمدة طويلة وكأنهم يقومون بحساباتٍ ما. لا، ليسوا كذلك، فهم أبسط من أن يقدروا على عمليّة حسابيّة بسيطة. تلك الوقفات هي بالضبط اللحظات التي يبدؤون فيها بخلق القصائد في أذهانهم. إنّها عمليةٌ باهرة”

“Oh, oh!' said Renzo, 'you are a poet!' To comprehend this witticism of poor Renzo, it is necessary to be informed, that in the eyes of the vulgar of Milan, and more particularly in its environs, the name of poet did not signify, as among cultivated people, a sublime genius, an inhabitant of Pindus, a pupil of the muses, but a whimsicality and eccentricity in discourse and conduct, which had more of singularity than sense; and an absurd wresting of words from their legitimate signification.”