"Day after day, throughout the winter, We hardened ourselves to live by bluest reason In a world of wind and frost."
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"The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags."
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"One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow"
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"Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through. Have liberty not as the air within a grave Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native, In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate."
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"Cold is our element and winter's air Brings voices as of lions coming down."
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"After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn."
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"The magnificent cause of being, The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world."
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"Of what is real I say, Is it the old, the roseate parent or The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else The spirit and all ensigns of the self?"
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"How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations."
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"The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy."
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"It is never the thing but the version of the thing."
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"It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life."
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"The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her."
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"Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed."
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