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“Un linguaggio si parlava, a occhiate, nobile e segreto, che pure abbracciava tutto il mondo visibile e anche un gran tempo, oltre la vita umana: in un'eterna accademia di maestri di cui Orazio portava il segno e il giudizio. E dopo il necessario silenzio, furon scambiate le parole libere ed efficaci dell'arte e una incantata parità di espressione si stabilì, che oltrepassava la contingenza di età, di sesso, di parentela.”

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“The ordinary reader, when warned against the obscurity of a poem, is apt to be thrown into a state of consternation very unfavourable to poetic receptivity. Instead of beginning, as he should, in a state of sensitivity, he obfuscates his senses by the desire to be clever and to look very hard for something, he doesn't know what-or else by the desire not to be taken ill. There is such a thing as stage fright, but what such readers have is pit or gallery fright. The more seasoned reader, he who has reached, in these matters, a state of greater purity, does not bother about understanding; not, at least, at first. I know that some of the poetry to which I am most devoted is poetry which I did not understand at first reading; some is poetry which I am not sure I understand yet: for instance, Shakespeare's.”

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