>>28200841>>28200793>Not dodge, not block, not retreatwant them, nor dexterity has side here.
>They don't give fake blows, or full, or weak: uning art removes the shadow and the fury.>You hear the swords clashing horribly in the middle of iron, and the feet of the footprint does not deliver: >Always the still foot and the hand moving, No useless cut, no empty point. Torquato Tasso
Il duello di Tancredi e Clorinda
Of course that's my literal translation, you can probably find better stuff online. My translation doesn't really make sense, also because it's poetry, so words have a different meaning sometimes, based on how they sound.