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Johan Huizinga

“If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.”

Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
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Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga
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