“If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.”
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“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
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[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
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