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... mind . It is the constant renewal of childhood's security , the reenergizing of the womb's silence , and the submission of the mind's hemispheres to sleep . " A grove there is ... / With length of shade so thick , that whoso glides ...
... mind . It is the constant renewal of childhood's security , the reenergizing of the womb's silence , and the submission of the mind's hemispheres to sleep . " A grove there is ... / With length of shade so thick , that whoso glides ...
Page 170
... mind has “ leafy arbours where the light / Might enter in at will " ; yet " Caverns there were within my mind which sun / Could never penetrate " ( P , III , 246-49 ) . Arbor and cavern both take the shape of the mind's house ( the ...
... mind has “ leafy arbours where the light / Might enter in at will " ; yet " Caverns there were within my mind which sun / Could never penetrate " ( P , III , 246-49 ) . Arbor and cavern both take the shape of the mind's house ( the ...
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... mind - flower - resonance and intimacy of mind dwelling in a form - accretes various shapes , signs , and gestures . Though the poem's structure does not yet com- pel us to inhabit its space , it encourages our growing intimacy with the ...
... mind - flower - resonance and intimacy of mind dwelling in a form - accretes various shapes , signs , and gestures . Though the poem's structure does not yet com- pel us to inhabit its space , it encourages our growing intimacy with the ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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