Eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard.
John Stuart Mill · The source reads: “If we may be excused the antithesis, we should say that eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard.”
John Stuart Mill · The source reads: “If we may be excused the antithesis, we should say that eloquence is heard, poetry is overheard.”
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