How metre beautifies. – Metre lays a veil over reality: it effectuates a certain artificiality of speech and unclarity of thinking; by means of the shadows it throws over thoughts it now conceals, now brings into prominence. As beautification requires shadows, so clarification requires ‘vagueness’. – Art makes the sight of life bearable by laying over it the veil of unclear thinking.
Insightful!
“Clarification requires vagueness”
