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...symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé. The blank page, for Mallarmé, trembled with possibility, as calm water or the tight-stretched canvas did for Monet. Its white flatness was not an absence: it was a poetic element, possessing the character of thought. "The intellectual armature of the poem," Mallarmé once wrote, "conceals itself, is present-is active-in the space that surrounds the stanzas and in the white of the paper: a meaningful silence, no less wonderful to compose than the lines themselves." And again: "To conjure up . . . the negated object, with the help of allusive...
...poem is part of the battle orders of NLF and North Vietnamese forces in the 1972 spring offensive...
...What is the significance of the following poem...
...could well conceive." Outside the madhouse or the monastery, no Englishman alive then-and no European of comparable genius-considered his life in quite this way. Blake, who never thought he was a dreamer, meant everything he painted to have the instructive force of revelation. Each drawing and poem-whether small and limpid, like the Songs of Innocence or his woodcut illustrations to Thornton's Virgil, or epically obscure, like the cantos of The Four Zoas or the grand designs of Jerusalem-was imagined as part of a metaphysical system, a means of explaining the history and nature...
...around-the-den night. And Noah took part in it. He just loves it when the rest of us are also not doing anything. After all, not doing anything is his 'thing.' " Sometimes he chirps and croons to himself. As his brother Karl, 13, wrote in a poem a few years...