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> [The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-steiner/the-private-reader-of-listener-can-become-an-executant-of-felt/)

[George Steiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-steiner/)

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