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“Simonides calls painting silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- b7072836be475bb4f49584b8411e0800c6541f8c84521ea118be7b45d4a246ff
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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