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“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
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“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
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