“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
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“Freud … showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.”
Beyond Culture (1965), p. 79
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