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To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Greatness, Musician, Poet
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “Essays and Studies”, p.59, Chatto & Windus
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.