Quote #115

Apotheosis is not The origin of the major man. He comes, Compact in invincible foils, from reason, Lighted at midnight by the studious eye, Swaddled in revery, the object of The hum of thoughts evaded in the mind...

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  1. The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
  2. My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.
  3. He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase, Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater…
  4. He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at…
  5. Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.
  6. The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principl…
  7. The first idea is an imagined thing.
  8. In being more than an exception, part, Though an heroic part, of the commonal. The major abstraction is the commonal, The inanimate, diffic…

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