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Page vii
... door until he is safely dead . Most people prefer their geniuses dead . They are more comfort- able to get along with that way . You know where they are , nights . While they are alive , they have the disturbing qualities of ...
... door until he is safely dead . Most people prefer their geniuses dead . They are more comfort- able to get along with that way . You know where they are , nights . While they are alive , they have the disturbing qualities of ...
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... door , any more than they made them to William Blake's . That may be another indication of the presence of genius — the fewness of tracks around his door . But Frost's footprints are there at Lankes's . The minute Frost laid his eyes on ...
... door , any more than they made them to William Blake's . That may be another indication of the presence of genius — the fewness of tracks around his door . But Frost's footprints are there at Lankes's . The minute Frost laid his eyes on ...
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... door- step . His house is wooden and sharp - cornered . It gives the light back and doesn't absorb it as the English stone does . His clouds are American clouds . There are democratic shoats roaming like lords of creation and with a ...
... door- step . His house is wooden and sharp - cornered . It gives the light back and doesn't absorb it as the English stone does . His clouds are American clouds . There are democratic shoats roaming like lords of creation and with a ...
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