"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher

Life, Man

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"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."

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