A quotation is not an excerpt. A quotation is a cicada. It is part of its nature never to quiet down.
—Osip Madelstam, “Conversation about Dante,” Selected Poems (New York Review of Books, 2004), translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin.
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