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... truth resides not in words , but in the heart ; the heart may , through the light of words , reveal or dis - cover truth . Plato says in Cratylus , “ Name ; the word seems to be a compressed sentence , signifying being for which there ...
... truth resides not in words , but in the heart ; the heart may , through the light of words , reveal or dis - cover truth . Plato says in Cratylus , “ Name ; the word seems to be a compressed sentence , signifying being for which there ...
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... truth : it is the resurrection of presences , history transfigured in the truth of undated time . Poetry , like history , is made : like truth , is seen . poetry , Poetry : incarnation of the - sun - on - the - stones in a name , of the ...
... truth : it is the resurrection of presences , history transfigured in the truth of undated time . Poetry , like history , is made : like truth , is seen . poetry , Poetry : incarnation of the - sun - on - the - stones in a name , of the ...
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... truth is to walk it . We neither go nor come : we are in the hands of time . Truth : to know ourselves , from the beginning , hung . Brotherhood over the void . Paz's humility is expressed in the " we " of the poem , in his gentle ...
... truth is to walk it . We neither go nor come : we are in the hands of time . Truth : to know ourselves , from the beginning , hung . Brotherhood over the void . Paz's humility is expressed in the " we " of the poem , in his gentle ...
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