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And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?"If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think r...more

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What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lectur...more

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One's thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpres...more

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For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionat...more

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Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. “It’s a very Greek idea, ...more

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The most satisfying of languages, Latin.