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" You are not called upon to believe what Dante believed, for your belief will not give you a groat's worth more of understanding and appreciation ; but you are called upon more and more to understand it. If you can read poetry as poetry, you will "believe... "
Dante & the Unorthodox: The Aesthetics of Transgression - Page 40
edited by - 2005 - 566 pages
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T. S. Eliot: The Poems

Martin Scofield - 1988 - 280 pages
...while reading). This 'poetic assent' obviously involves at least an 'understanding' of the beliefs: 'You are not called upon to believe what Dante believed,...you are called upon more and more to understand it' (Selected Essays, pp. 257-8). The middle part of that statement, the idea that sharing the belief will...
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The Importance of Nietzsche

Erich Heller - 1988 - 224 pages
...is so, TS Eliot's discussion of this particular problem comes to nothing. His statement on page 258: "You are not called upon to believe what Dante believed,...groat's worth more of understanding and appreciation" is, after its more forceful reiteration in a postscript (p. 269), crossed out again by "So I cannot,...
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