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... Meaning and image are the same thing . A poem has no meaning other than its images . " The translator is caught up by images and rhythms , seduced by them , and becomes a lover of the process we identify as poetry . Enchanted , seduced ...
... Meaning and image are the same thing . A poem has no meaning other than its images . " The translator is caught up by images and rhythms , seduced by them , and becomes a lover of the process we identify as poetry . Enchanted , seduced ...
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... meaning has been grasped , he says , we may get rid of words . Jonathan Chaves gives us this poem by Yang Wan - li ... meaning , I will say a good poet gets rid of meaning . " But , " you ask , " without words and without meaning , where ...
... meaning has been grasped , he says , we may get rid of words . Jonathan Chaves gives us this poem by Yang Wan - li ... meaning , I will say a good poet gets rid of meaning . " But , " you ask , " without words and without meaning , where ...
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... meaning rises , where the meaning evaporates , into history , into the day the mind , and the precipitating syllables are free at last on the wind , sinking , the proof of god the cry sinking to where it's just sound , part of one sound ...
... meaning rises , where the meaning evaporates , into history , into the day the mind , and the precipitating syllables are free at last on the wind , sinking , the proof of god the cry sinking to where it's just sound , part of one sound ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
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