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... simply put — self- definition ; it gave me " something to live up to " complete with role models and an identifiable ancestry . “ To have gathered from the air a live tradition / or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame / This is ...
... simply put — self- definition ; it gave me " something to live up to " complete with role models and an identifiable ancestry . “ To have gathered from the air a live tradition / or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame / This is ...
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... simply couldn't raise funds here . In Minnesota , he explained , there would be more grants , there would be corporate and private funds to help . Our local paper was very sympathetic ; losing Graywolf Press , it said , would be a loss ...
... simply couldn't raise funds here . In Minnesota , he explained , there would be more grants , there would be corporate and private funds to help . Our local paper was very sympathetic ; losing Graywolf Press , it said , would be a loss ...
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... simply the " translation " or words , but the poetry ) entirely obliterates any sense of the translator's presence . George Seferis , in his great poem , “ An Old Man on the River Bank , ” says , " I want no more than to speak simply ...
... simply the " translation " or words , but the poetry ) entirely obliterates any sense of the translator's presence . George Seferis , in his great poem , “ An Old Man on the River Bank , ” says , " I want no more than to speak simply ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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