From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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