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... remains , in nouns . We imitate sounds which inform , enrich , or threaten our lives ; we rhyme with Nature . Whales rhyme . Coyotes rhyme . Wolves rhyme . Sometime in ancient India , a Wise One sat and listened attentively and then set ...
... remains , in nouns . We imitate sounds which inform , enrich , or threaten our lives ; we rhyme with Nature . Whales rhyme . Coyotes rhyme . Wolves rhyme . Sometime in ancient India , a Wise One sat and listened attentively and then set ...
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... remains for speculation . But one thing is clear : Rexroth believed that the " universalization of the human soul , the creation of the true person , " may come freely , but only after enormous struggle to find that " door which is ...
... remains for speculation . But one thing is clear : Rexroth believed that the " universalization of the human soul , the creation of the true person , " may come freely , but only after enormous struggle to find that " door which is ...
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... remains , a Buddhist parallel to the Bible's " dust into dust , " the accom- panying prose drawing the reader into a vast network of allusion . The haiku itself is spare , clean , swift as a boning knife . The melopoeia combines a , o ...
... remains , a Buddhist parallel to the Bible's " dust into dust , " the accom- panying prose drawing the reader into a vast network of allusion . The haiku itself is spare , clean , swift as a boning knife . The melopoeia combines a , o ...
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