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P. 117 "The poems themselves, while purporting to be about nature, were so full of Whitman's presence that the nature receded over a distant hill and the listener was left with the striding I, I, I of the narrator taking up all the room in the landscape."
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From Followed by the Lark by Helen Humphreys
"But a detail was never impersonal - whether remembered or recorded. Paying attention was a kind of devotion, and Henry didn't neex to write the words Love or Grief to prove his tenderness.
For it was Love who strolled along the beach wearing six hats upon its head. It was Grief that plunged you into a roiling sea, churned you in the waves until your very shape was
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"But a detail was never impersonal - whether remembered or recorded. Paying attention was a kind of devotion, and Henry didn't neex to write the words Love or Grief to prove his tenderness.
For it was Love who strolled along the beach wearing six hats upon its head. It was Grief that plunged you into a roiling sea, churned you in the waves until your very shape was
