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No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.

Walter Benjamin
Symphony, Beholder, Reader
Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
No poem is intended for the reader, no picture for the beholder, no symphony for the listener.