Famous Quotes | Nobody, I think, ought to read...

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Attribution: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864), U.S. author. Hilda, in The Marble Faun, ch. 41 (1860).

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