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... stone , and heard the bells speak out Articulate music . ( P , VII , 111-15 ) At the limit of endurance , the drooping , brooding body imitates the arc of grove or cave , the curve of nature " compassed round by mountain solitudes " ( P ...
... stone , and heard the bells speak out Articulate music . ( P , VII , 111-15 ) At the limit of endurance , the drooping , brooding body imitates the arc of grove or cave , the curve of nature " compassed round by mountain solitudes " ( P ...
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... stone " ( KH , 80 ) . When calculus projects a curve , we fill the space its line en- closes with awareness and sensation , and it solidifies . " The stomach is full , the ocean no fuller , both have the same quality of fullness . In ...
... stone " ( KH , 80 ) . When calculus projects a curve , we fill the space its line en- closes with awareness and sensation , and it solidifies . " The stomach is full , the ocean no fuller , both have the same quality of fullness . In ...
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... stones , ever changing " ( Have- lock Ellis ) . The stones of our bodies dreaming . Yet stones still : " The unsinging fields where no lungs breathe , / Where light is stone " ( Roethke , CP , 196 ) . Body . Egg cluster and ...
... stones , ever changing " ( Have- lock Ellis ) . The stones of our bodies dreaming . Yet stones still : " The unsinging fields where no lungs breathe , / Where light is stone " ( Roethke , CP , 196 ) . Body . Egg cluster and ...
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