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“...the conscious need of the strong poet [defined broadly as the creator of new metaphors]...to come to terms with the blind impress which chance has given him, to make a self for himself by redescribing that impress in terms which are, if only marginally, his own.”
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“Meaning lies as much
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
in the mind of the reader
as in the Haiku.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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