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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Because, Harry, memorizing great writing is a way of building the style and music of elevated language into the sinews and synapses of a person's thought. Every English lit professor knows this, as does virtually every writer -- especially the greats. American poet Robert Gluck has even talked about transcribing Keats's poetry simply to feel what it was like to have that sort of concentrated beauty spill from his pen. J.S. Bach used to learn from other composers by copying out their scores, so the practice is represented in virtually every art -- we've all seen great examples of copied or imitated paintings.
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We must agree to differ. Personally I feel that I am sufficiently "elevated" by reading authors such as Dickens and Shakespeare, without needing to memorise their entire opera.