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Page 68
... dream and actual life . When the two are brought together by an act of imagination there occur those sometimes brief moments of com- pelling clarity and completeness . And these moments are , or ought to be , part of the real life of ...
... dream and actual life . When the two are brought together by an act of imagination there occur those sometimes brief moments of com- pelling clarity and completeness . And these moments are , or ought to be , part of the real life of ...
Page 89
... dream- ing the Beautiful in the face of enormous tragedy . Elytis is a poet deeply engaged with his time . - Imagination and reality are not separate , mutually antagonistic things , but are in fact the two faces of one being . Rather ...
... dream- ing the Beautiful in the face of enormous tragedy . Elytis is a poet deeply engaged with his time . - Imagination and reality are not separate , mutually antagonistic things , but are in fact the two faces of one being . Rather ...
Page 186
... dream . Was that Chuang Tzu lifting his chalk - white wings from a blossoming scrotchbroom that afternoon in August ? Can a butterfly become a man in its dreams ? Perched on my favorite stump , I look out at 186 A POET'S WORK.
... dream . Was that Chuang Tzu lifting his chalk - white wings from a blossoming scrotchbroom that afternoon in August ? Can a butterfly become a man in its dreams ? Perched on my favorite stump , I look out at 186 A POET'S WORK.
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