Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. (Hannah Arendt)

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt

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