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... deep , his two acorn - hatted infant acolytes fear he will long to fly like spray and fall too , off the sloping , pale edge of the world , entranced ! Most often , the imitation Chinese poem , through the laziness and superfi- ciality ...
... deep , his two acorn - hatted infant acolytes fear he will long to fly like spray and fall too , off the sloping , pale edge of the world , entranced ! Most often , the imitation Chinese poem , through the laziness and superfi- ciality ...
Page 129
... deep influence of translation rather than the more usual superficial one . In Robert Bly's best poetry , Silence in the Snowy Fields ( Wesleyan University , 1962 ) and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds ( Harper and Row , 1987 ) , his poems ...
... deep influence of translation rather than the more usual superficial one . In Robert Bly's best poetry , Silence in the Snowy Fields ( Wesleyan University , 1962 ) and Loving a Woman in Two Worlds ( Harper and Row , 1987 ) , his poems ...
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... deep into stone , into the heart of granite . Strange , then , what wells up , what pours forth in a flood , should be both clear and bright as water , heavy and dark as blood ; that stone be wounded into speech and that such wounds ...
... deep into stone , into the heart of granite . Strange , then , what wells up , what pours forth in a flood , should be both clear and bright as water , heavy and dark as blood ; that stone be wounded into speech and that such wounds ...
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