Quote #116

My dame, sing for this person accurate songs.

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  2. 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…
  3. The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
  4. 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…
  5. 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…
  6. In being more than an exception, part, Though an heroic part, of the commonal. The major abstraction is the commonal, The inanimate, diffic…
  7. Logos and logic, crystal hypothesis, Incipit and a form to speak the word And every latent double in the word, Beau linguist.
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