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Poetry which gives no beauty to man or which raises him to no nobility has failed even to become itself, that is, poetical. But when it is mere disjointed gibberish, spluttering nonsense, then it is harmful to the orderly sanity of those who adore it.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 124