"Men, finding in the impetuosity of high poetry a condition of exaltation, which they have not felt in their own existence but in dreams and fever, which have given them but a false copy of it, impute the state of dream and fever to the poet. The true poet daydreams. He is not possessed by his subject, but dominates it.
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Men, finding in the impetuosity of high poetry a condition of exaltation, which they have not felt in their own existence but in dreams and fever, which have given them but a false copy of it, impute the state of dream and fever to the poet. The true poet daydreams. He is not possessed by his subject, but dominates it.
""Oamenii, găsind în impetuozitățile poeziei înalte o condiție de exaltare, pe care nu au resimțit-o în propria lor existență decât în vise și febră, care le-au dat numai o copie falsă a ei, îi impută poetului starea de vis și febră. Adevăratul poet visează treaz. El nu e posedat de subiectul său, ci îl domină."