Poetry must resist the intelligence almost successfully.
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Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the black bird.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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Within a single thing, a single shawl
Wrapped tightly round us, since we are poor, a warmth,
A light, a power, the miraculous influence.
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She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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