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... understanding , lending voice to feelings we all have , illuminating those feelings so that we come to understand them more deeply and more clearly . Passion can be distilled . The poet waits cautiously for the air to clear , for the ...
... understanding , lending voice to feelings we all have , illuminating those feelings so that we come to understand them more deeply and more clearly . Passion can be distilled . The poet waits cautiously for the air to clear , for the ...
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... understanding above all others : " They do not understand how what is at variance is in agreement with itself : a back - turning structure ( palintropos harmonie ) like that of the bow and the lyre . " The noun used , harmonie , comes ...
... understanding above all others : " They do not understand how what is at variance is in agreement with itself : a back - turning structure ( palintropos harmonie ) like that of the bow and the lyre . " The noun used , harmonie , comes ...
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... understand the words another has said . It takes courage to say things differently : Caution and cowardice dictate the use of the cliché . " Ben Belitt , who has taken his lumps as a translator of Neruda , makes a beautifully apropos ...
... understand the words another has said . It takes courage to say things differently : Caution and cowardice dictate the use of the cliché . " Ben Belitt , who has taken his lumps as a translator of Neruda , makes a beautifully apropos ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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