Quotes by Giambattista Vico

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By diligence, man can acquire in any activity the skill which nature has not given him, but this is not possible in poetry, where he who does not possess the necessary inclination from birth cannot acquire it by work - it being known that the poetic arts and the critical arts can give him spiritual culture, but they cannot make him great.

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Poetry:... the mother tongue of the human race.