All poetry is of the nature of soliloquy.
John Stuart Mill, “Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties,” The Crayon, vol. 7, no. 4, 1860.
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A quotation is not an excerpt. A quotation is a cicada. It is part of its nature never to quiet down.
—Osip Madelstam, “Conversation about Dante,” Selected Poems (New York Review of Books, 2004), translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin.
—Osip Madelstam, “Conversation about Dante,” Selected Poems (New York Review of Books, 2004), translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin.
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