The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. (José Ortega y Gasset)

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

José Ortega y Gasset

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