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... one's self - discipline , one's shamanistic practices , and one's spiritual life . Poetry subverts materialistic economics because there is no " product " in the marketplace sense of the term , and because poetry teaches us to ...
... one's self - discipline , one's shamanistic practices , and one's spiritual life . Poetry subverts materialistic economics because there is no " product " in the marketplace sense of the term , and because poetry teaches us to ...
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... One's relationship with poetry in translation is indeed often uneasy , but it is vital to one's spiritual health . The situation is not unlike the situation of Cavafy's great poem , " Waiting for the Barbarians ” : What are we waiting ...
... One's relationship with poetry in translation is indeed often uneasy , but it is vital to one's spiritual health . The situation is not unlike the situation of Cavafy's great poem , " Waiting for the Barbarians ” : What are we waiting ...
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... one's self . Since the self is not detached from one's environment , one must make peace with the environment as well . Husbandry and wyfdom speak of land and sea , of proper care and the self's sense of proportion , of silence and of ...
... one's self . Since the self is not detached from one's environment , one must make peace with the environment as well . Husbandry and wyfdom speak of land and sea , of proper care and the self's sense of proportion , of silence and of ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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