"The word is the making of the world"
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"I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me."
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"Life is not free from its forms."
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"Thought tends to collect in pools."
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"Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal."
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"If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands, has A wider brow, large and less human Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body Of a primitive."
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"It may be that the ignorant man, alone, Has any chance to mate his life with life That is the sensual, pearly spouse, the life That is fluent in even the wintriest bronze."
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"Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration."
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"A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light."
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"It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives."
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"The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes."
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"Words of the world are the life of the world."
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"Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand."
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"Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential."
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"Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends."
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"You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence."
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"It is never the thing but the version of the thing: The fragrance of the woman not her self, Her self in her manner not the solid block, The day in its color not perpending time, Time in its weather, our most sovereign lord, The weather in words and words in sounds of sound."
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"The thinker as reader reads what has been written. He wears the words he reads to look upon Within his being."
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"In a world of universal poverty The philosophers alone will be fat Against the autumn winds In an autumn that will be perpetual."
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"Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds."
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