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Page 87
... struggles for social liberation and in the loftiest poetic accomplishments . From such a great effort , the drops of light fall slowly ... struggle of opposites the supreme movement of the Unbounded . Like the pre - Socratics 87 After Elytis.
... struggles for social liberation and in the loftiest poetic accomplishments . From such a great effort , the drops of light fall slowly ... struggle of opposites the supreme movement of the Unbounded . Like the pre - Socratics 87 After Elytis.
Page 89
... struggles to achieve not the French sense of la belle clarté , not clarity for its own sake , but for " limpidity . " He says of this struggle , " What I mean by limpidity is that behind a given thing something different can be seen and ...
... struggles to achieve not the French sense of la belle clarté , not clarity for its own sake , but for " limpidity . " He says of this struggle , " What I mean by limpidity is that behind a given thing something different can be seen and ...
Page 183
... struggle with the self is greater than the struggle with the State . No poet wants to inhabit Plato's Republic ; but neither does one wish for the life of exile and / or poverty . To write is to speak . To speak implies the necessity of ...
... struggle with the self is greater than the struggle with the State . No poet wants to inhabit Plato's Republic ; but neither does one wish for the life of exile and / or poverty . To write is to speak . To speak implies the necessity of ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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