Word: unveil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep them gentle, become our modern power of symbolization. Coleridge said that the poet brings the whole soul of man into activity, in a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order. Shelley, whom I quote unblushingly, wrote that all great poets are revolutionaries who "unveil the permanent analogy of things by images which participate in the life of truth." Words are the quarry from which the cathedral is fashioned which the Mass of the symbol vivifies. Hofmannsthal said that to the pious only the symbol is real. Purity of language is the achievement of Antony...