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Poetry · Reflection
ROBERT MUSIL ~ THE MEANING OF POETRY
25 November 2011
“Ultimately a poem, and the mystery of it, cuts the meaning of the world clear, where it is bound fast by thousands of ordinary words …”
Robert Musil
Austrian author (1880-1942) of the famous novel The Man without Qualities
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