"All at once this text is no longer one of those intended to teach us something and to vanish as soon as that something is understood; its effect is to make us live a different life, breath according to this second life; and it implies a state or a world in which the objects and being found there, or rather their images, have other freedoms and other ties than those in the practical world …. all this gives us the idea of an enchanted nature, subjected as by a spell to the whims, the magic, and the powers of language."
— Valery, on poetry
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