Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...understand its meaning, for it is the wail of the letter-box, its agonizing moan of helplessness and impotence. But It is doomed to everlasting dumbness. Its secrets are by It unutterable. A Sphinx? No, a thousand times more than the Sphinx. For what to us is the enigma of the Sphinx, a riddle of the dead past, compared with the enigmas of our living world...
...inner life of a poet is an enigma to the ordinary mortal. He is regarded as a curious being who rarely descends to the commonplace things of earth, and when he does so, his visits are supposed to be of short duration. My own experiences on this subject may help to change this opinion in a slight degree...