And then, is there a higher æsthetic delight than to read poetry in a language which one does not quite thoroughly understand?
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “And then, is there a higher æsthetic delight than to read poetry in a language which one does not quite thoroughly…”
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Kropotkin contemplates the aesthetic pleasure of reading poetry in a foreign language.
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