Dhvanyalokalocana 9
English (machine translation) 9
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9.2
That meaning, and a particular word endowed with the capacity to reveal it, / are to be recognized with effort as the word and meaning of the great poet.
9.3
The suggested meaning, and a particular word endowed with the capacity to reveal it, not mere word[s]. Only those two are to be recognized as the word and meaning of the great poet. It is through the suggestive and suggested alone, when properly employed, that great poets attain the status of great poetry, not through the mere composition of expressor and expressed.
9.4
Now, he explains that although the suggestive and the suggested are preeminent, the fact that poets first take up the expressor and the expressed is also entirely fitting: