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A thought expressed is a falsehood." In poetry what is not said and yet gleams through the beauty of the symbol, works more powerfully on the heart than that which is expressed in words. Symbolism makes the very style, the very artistic substance of poetry inspired, transparent, illuminated throughout like the delicate walls of an alabaster amphora in which a flame is ignited. Characters can also serve as symbols. Sancho Panza and Faust, Do..
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decadence
decadents
don-juan
don-quixote
edgar-allan-poe
falstaff
faust
flaubert
goethe
hamlet
ibsen
impressionism
maupassant
sancho-panza
symbolist
turgenev
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