Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and leas…

Hannah Arendt
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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it. ✨ Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). Reflections on Literature and Culture, p.174, Stanford University Press
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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it. ✨ Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). Reflections on Literature and Culture, p.174, Stanford University Press

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