"Infinity," [Giacomo] Leopardi offers one of the most stunning line breaks in the history of verse. As he looks out from a hill in Recanati, the poet claims he can see "interminati/Spazi." [Jonathan] Galassi renders the phrase with accuracy and naturalness as "unending spaces," but he loses that enjambment, which in the original not only describes but enacts a moment of utter breathlessness.from The New York Times: The Solitary Life
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