Word: wingbeats
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...
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