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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

T. S. Eliot

From Dante, a 1929 essay. The full quote is

What is surprising about the poetry of Dante is that it is, in one sense, extremely easy to read. It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

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