In song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. - Paul Valery

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Paul Valery: "In song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language."

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Admirably	Balanced	Current	Delicately
Disappear	Extreme	Hand	Intellectual
Language	Lose	Musical	Often
Other	Power	Prose	Sensual
Significance	Song	Stands	Symmetrically
Tend	Tends	Thus	Value
Verse	While	Words

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