I drank in the sense and the music of every line of it, beginning with the very first verses of the ideally beautiful dedication, and soon knew full pages by heart.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I drank in the sense and the music of every line of it, beginning with the very first verses of the ideally beautiful…”
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Kropotkin describes his deep appreciation for the beauty of poetry he studied.
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