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Santayana on Dante

posted by drew

05.16.10

"A mind persuaded that is lives among things that, like words, are essentially significant, and that what they signify is the magic attraction, called love, which draws all things after it, is a mind poetic in its intuition, even if its language be prose. The science and philosophy of Dante did not have to be put into verse in order to become poetry: they were poetry fundamentally and in their essence."

--George Santayana, Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, Goethe   (1910)

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