Every true sentiment is untranslatable. To express it is to betray it, but to translate it means to conceal it. The true expression hides what it shows. Every strong sentiment creates a vacuum into us. And the clear language, preventing the vacuum to appear, also prevents the poetry's appearance in our mind. That's why an image, an allegory, a figure that conceal what they'd like to reveal, have more meaning for the spirit than the clearness of mind.
Therefore, true beauty is something that never hits us straight. A sunset is beautiful for all that it makes us to go without, for all it makes us to lose.
—— Antonin Artaud
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