“It is difficult to get news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”
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A paraphrase of Matthew Arnold's: Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say we feel — below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel — there glows With noiseless current strong, obscure and deep, with, The central stream of what we feel indeed. … Cited in SteinerGeorge, After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975; 413.
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