Ortega

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    Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors.
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)