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“The Story of particular facts is as a mirror,
which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful:
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”1 (Shelley, A Defence of Poetry)
Galiet & Galiet
“An aesthetic idea cannot be knowledge, because
it is an intuition (of the imagination)
for which an adequate concept can never be found.” (Kant, Critique of Judgement)
“For I can see them in that truthful mirror which makes itself reflective of all else but which can be reflected nowhere else.” (Dante, Paradiso XXVI, 106-108)
“And the more souls there are who love on high, the more there is to love, the more of loving, for like a mirror each returns it to the other.”
(Dante, Purgatorio, XV, 73-75)
1 Heath, William. Major British Poets of the Romantic Period. Shelley. A Defence of Poetry. New York: McMillan Publishing Co., 1973. 978.
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